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... humanity . Our next step was from the poetic - romantic to the actual , from the Victory to the biscuit - bakery , a place where biscuits are made for naval stores by steam . A police - man started out upon us " like a spider , ” as ...
... humanity . Our next step was from the poetic - romantic to the actual , from the Victory to the biscuit - bakery , a place where biscuits are made for naval stores by steam . A police - man started out upon us " like a spider , ” as ...
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... , the clergyman and clerk , a choir of boys , and , for the audience , half a dozen men , three or four women , octogenarians , or verging on the extreme of human life , and ourselves . I confess that the temple 38 SOUTHAMPTON .
... , the clergyman and clerk , a choir of boys , and , for the audience , half a dozen men , three or four women , octogenarians , or verging on the extreme of human life , and ourselves . I confess that the temple 38 SOUTHAMPTON .
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... human conduct , when you consider that his observers do not know whether he be " Giles Jolt " or any other member of the human family ? We had good reason to be satisfied with our po- sition . The coachman had driven twenty years on ...
... human conduct , when you consider that his observers do not know whether he be " Giles Jolt " or any other member of the human family ? We had good reason to be satisfied with our po- sition . The coachman had driven twenty years on ...
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... human form . The artists have not taken man for their model , but the English man , of whom grace can scarcely be predicated , and the Englishman , too , in his national , and sometimes in his hideous mili- tary costume . One of the ...
... human form . The artists have not taken man for their model , but the English man , of whom grace can scarcely be predicated , and the Englishman , too , in his national , and sometimes in his hideous mili- tary costume . One of the ...
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... Evening's Meditation " rank with the best English poetry ? and are not her essays , that on " Prejudice " and that on the " Inconsisten- cy of Human Expectations , " unsurpassed ? I was glad to hear Miss Baillie , who is LONDON . 83.
... Evening's Meditation " rank with the best English poetry ? and are not her essays , that on " Prejudice " and that on the " Inconsisten- cy of Human Expectations , " unsurpassed ? I was glad to hear Miss Baillie , who is LONDON . 83.
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Página 74 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 55 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Página 75 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining L,ove shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, ,And hard Unkindness...
Página 154 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.