Payne's universum, or pictorial world: engravings of views, portraits [&c.] ed. [with descriptive letterpress] by C. Edwards, Tema 106,Volumen2 |
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... English arms have subdued the haughty spirits of the Punjaub , and added new realms to the wonderful fabric of our Eastern Empire . The bold mountaineers of the Caucasus still continue their heroic , and not unsuccessful efforts against ...
... English arms have subdued the haughty spirits of the Punjaub , and added new realms to the wonderful fabric of our Eastern Empire . The bold mountaineers of the Caucasus still continue their heroic , and not unsuccessful efforts against ...
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... English ambassador at Constantinople , persuaded him to come to England . He was most probably a man of agreeable manners , or he could hardly have been so uniformly successful in his intercourse with the great . He remained in England ...
... English ambassador at Constantinople , persuaded him to come to England . He was most probably a man of agreeable manners , or he could hardly have been so uniformly successful in his intercourse with the great . He remained in England ...
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... English travellers . There is , perhaps , hardly any subject in geography that is more interesting , or that exercises a more imme- diate influence upon the welfare of mankind , than the configurations and relative directions of the ...
... English travellers . There is , perhaps , hardly any subject in geography that is more interesting , or that exercises a more imme- diate influence upon the welfare of mankind , than the configurations and relative directions of the ...
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... English and German university systems ; our readers have recently had an opportunity of being edified on this subject by the collective wisdom of the country in the House of Commons . It cannot be denied that the system pursued in ...
... English and German university systems ; our readers have recently had an opportunity of being edified on this subject by the collective wisdom of the country in the House of Commons . It cannot be denied that the system pursued in ...
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... English namesake , the beadle ( or proctor ) is a personage not to be trifled with . THE PEDELL . A merry story I have boys , to tell , Of crabbed Old Spyright , the prying Pedell , Who never has anything better to do Than pick holes in ...
... English namesake , the beadle ( or proctor ) is a personage not to be trifled with . THE PEDELL . A merry story I have boys , to tell , Of crabbed Old Spyright , the prying Pedell , Who never has anything better to do Than pick holes in ...
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A.H. Payne Acropolis admiration Archduke ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA artist Austria BAMBOROUGH CASTLE Barcelona beautiful Beethoven bridge built castle Cathedral celebrated century chapel Charles cloister colours COUNTESS OF DERBY Danube Desert distinguished Donaustauf edifices Egypt Ellen eminence Emperor English erected father favour favourite Felicien David former Frederic Augustus French gave GAZNA German Ghuznee GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING granite height honour hundred inhabitants Isaac island King King of Saxony landvogt latter likewise lofty magnificent master miles mind Mogador monument Moscow mountains Neva Nile noble opera ornaments painted painter palace Palermo Pedell Peter Petersburg Pforta picture possession present Prince Ramsay reader remains rise river rocks ruins Russian Saint Serge Saint Simonians Saxony scene side soon statue Stirling Stirling Castle stream student temple thousand tion tower town traveller vessels Vienna village walls waters Welsdon whilst whole youth
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Página 15 - So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still ; and three nights after this, About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold should be his last, full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
Página 15 - He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely: Ever witness for him Those twins of learning, that he rais'd in you, Ipswich, and Oxford!
Página 15 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Página 72 - Whose rivulets are like rich brides, Lovely, with gold beneath their tides ; Whose sandal groves and bowers of spice Might be a Peri's Paradise ! But crimson now her rivers ran With human blood — the smell of death Came reeking from those spicy bowers, And man, the sacrifice of man, Mingled his taint with every breath Upwafted from the innocent flowers...
Página 15 - Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious else. Grif. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Página 100 - I received your letter with indignation, and with scorn return you this answer; that I cannot but wonder whence you should gather any hopes that I should prove, like you...
Página 86 - ... between you and it. And so it is throughout the south and west of Ireland ; the traveller is haunted by the face of the popular starvation. It is not tbe exception, it is the condition of the people.
Página 15 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues * We write in water.
Página 93 - tis haunted, holy ground, No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon: Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Página 86 - It is not the exception, it is the condition of the people. In this fairest and richest of countries, men are suffering and starving by millions. There are thousands of them at this minute stretched in the sunshine at their cabin doors with no work, scarcely any food, no hope seemingly. Strong countrymen are lying in bed "for the hunger " — because a man lying on his back does not need so much food as a person a-foot.