Burford Cottage, and Its Robin-red-breastT. Tegg and Son, 1835 - 476 Seiten |
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... traveller may frequently ride many miles without seeing a living creature . ' Speaking of the shores of New Holland generally ( and it is known that New South Wales is a part of New Holland , or , as it is sometimes called , Australia ) ...
... traveller may frequently ride many miles without seeing a living creature . ' Speaking of the shores of New Holland generally ( and it is known that New South Wales is a part of New Holland , or , as it is sometimes called , Australia ) ...
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... traveller , and the chief scene of his adventures had been Central Africa , or that part of the African conti- nent which is crossed by the Equinoctial or Equa- torial Line , and is properly Nigritia or Negroland , and the region of the ...
... traveller , and the chief scene of his adventures had been Central Africa , or that part of the African conti- nent which is crossed by the Equinoctial or Equa- torial Line , and is properly Nigritia or Negroland , and the region of the ...
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... traveller , creeps whither it will , and at once eats and digests food , and bears flowers ! 66 A plant in Africa ! " exclaimed Richard , half in raptures , and half in fear ; " a plant in Africa , that eats , and that goes about as it ...
... traveller , creeps whither it will , and at once eats and digests food , and bears flowers ! 66 A plant in Africa ! " exclaimed Richard , half in raptures , and half in fear ; " a plant in Africa , that eats , and that goes about as it ...
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... traveller to the neighbourhood of the town of Bedford , makes the remarks which I shall read to you , upon the country which he saw there : I visited the spot , ' says he , one day in the spring , and shall not readily forget my ...
... traveller to the neighbourhood of the town of Bedford , makes the remarks which I shall read to you , upon the country which he saw there : I visited the spot , ' says he , one day in the spring , and shall not readily forget my ...
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... traveller , whom a few mornings after , I found speaking , and who , as I soon learned , had returned the day before from Lon- don to the cottage ; " quitting Badagry , city and terri- tory together , let us cross the river , by the map ...
... traveller , whom a few mornings after , I found speaking , and who , as I soon learned , had returned the day before from Lon- don to the cottage ; " quitting Badagry , city and terri- tory together , let us cross the river , by the map ...
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Africa ancient ancient Egypt antiquity appearance arts astronomy Badagry barbarism beasts beautiful beaver birds body Burford Cottage Bushmen cage called CHAP civilization classical Cobbler Dykes collar Colognese Comet constellations creatures cried crumbs distance divine earth Egypt Emily England English ether eyes fancy Farmer Mowbray father feelings feteesh-huts fire garden Greek Gubbins Gubbins's Hartley hear heard heaven human hyæna imagination insects king latter learning least live mankind manner means Miss Wainfleet modern moral morning native nature nebula neighbour never observed once Ovid Pagan papa Paulett Pelican perhaps philosophers planets poet poor puss Ralph Wilcox reason Red-breast returned Richard Robin Robin-red-breasts Saint Valentine Saturnalia seen Sir William Herschel solar system song space speak species stars thee things thought tion traveller tree truth Van Diemen's Land village whole wings words young
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Seite 326 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 324 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 24 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains : and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive...
Seite 330 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Seite 458 - And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Seite 321 - Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Seite 296 - Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods. Wisely regardful of th...
Seite 466 - God who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise, And to give light to all below, Doth send him round the skies. When from the chambers of the east His morning race begins, He never tires, nor stops to rest ; But round the world he shines.
Seite 325 - Up led by thee Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering; with like safety guided down Return me to my native element: Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.
Seite 447 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.