Pen Pictures of EuropeJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 - 591 páginas |
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... five families of our name , and took their address . Returning to the hotel , I found the others had not come in ; so I went out , called a hansom , and , handing the list to the driver , told him to go to each of those places , and ...
... five families of our name , and took their address . Returning to the hotel , I found the others had not come in ; so I went out , called a hansom , and , handing the list to the driver , told him to go to each of those places , and ...
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... five of these plates , fastened together with silver wire or chains , showed that , though heathen , they were not ignorant of art , nor destitute of worldly lore . I asked for the Doomsday - Book , and was told that the original was ...
... five of these plates , fastened together with silver wire or chains , showed that , though heathen , they were not ignorant of art , nor destitute of worldly lore . I asked for the Doomsday - Book , and was told that the original was ...
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... five hundred presented , though there were perhaps a thousand present in the throne- room . Those belonging to foreign nations remained in the room . After our friends had been presented they fell back , and had a good opportunity of ...
... five hundred presented , though there were perhaps a thousand present in the throne- room . Those belonging to foreign nations remained in the room . After our friends had been presented they fell back , and had a good opportunity of ...
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... five feet high , supported by four groups of granite columns , to serve as a shrine for the statue of the prince , sitting in his robes of the Garter . Flights of steps run up to this statue , occupying a square of one hundred and ...
... five feet high , supported by four groups of granite columns , to serve as a shrine for the statue of the prince , sitting in his robes of the Garter . Flights of steps run up to this statue , occupying a square of one hundred and ...
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... five or thirty feet high , almost giving it the appearance of a prison , but then the archbishop's salary is seventy - five thousand dollars . Yesterday we went to the Temple Church , but it was so crowded we were obliged to stand ; and ...
... five or thirty feet high , almost giving it the appearance of a prison , but then the archbishop's salary is seventy - five thousand dollars . Yesterday we went to the Temple Church , but it was so crowded we were obliged to stand ; and ...
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Página 326 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook His former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in His honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Página 94 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen ; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
Página 56 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 107 - HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's ; If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it.
Página 93 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Página 51 - WILL BEAR, SWIFTNESS IN ERRAND THE STAG'S FEET DECLARE : LOADED HIS LEFT HAND APT TO LABOUR SAITH : THE VEST HIS NEATNESS, OPEN HAND HIS FAITH. GIRT WITH HIS SWORD, HIS SHIELD UPON HIS ARM, HIMSELF AND MASTER HE'LL PROTECT FROM HARM.
Página 88 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Página 243 - And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Página 61 - As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church we see; As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year; As many gates as moons one year does view — Strange tale to tell! yet not more strange than true.
Página 188 - Sublime, but neither bleak nor bare Nor misty, are the mountains there, — Softly sublime, profusely fair ! Up to their summits clothed in green And fruitful as the vales between They lightly rise And scale the skies, And groves and gardens still abound, For where no shoot Could else take root The peaks are shelved and terraced round...