The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful KnowledgeCharles Knight, 1832 |
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... ground of similar zeal , Henry VIII . suppressed the religious houses of the kingdom , and seized their estates and revenues to his own use : the hospital of St. Mary of Rouncival was included in this fate . On its ancient site stands ...
... ground of similar zeal , Henry VIII . suppressed the religious houses of the kingdom , and seized their estates and revenues to his own use : the hospital of St. Mary of Rouncival was included in this fate . On its ancient site stands ...
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... ground , lighted by torches . But Pompeii was covered by loose mud , pumice - stone , and ashes , over which , in the course of centuries , there collected vegetable soil . Beneath this shallow soil , the whole is very crumbly and easy ...
... ground , lighted by torches . But Pompeii was covered by loose mud , pumice - stone , and ashes , over which , in the course of centuries , there collected vegetable soil . Beneath this shallow soil , the whole is very crumbly and easy ...
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... ground , and covers rather more than a square mile . Its streets are wide , and intersect each other at right angles . It contains several government buildings , a parish church , and other places of worship ; a government school for ...
... ground , and covers rather more than a square mile . Its streets are wide , and intersect each other at right angles . It contains several government buildings , a parish church , and other places of worship ; a government school for ...
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... ground . He is a family man ; he enjoys a pleasure doubly if it is shared by his wife and children . Well , then , in Great Russell - street , Blooms- bury , is the British Museum ; and here , from ten o'clock till four , on Mondays ...
... ground . He is a family man ; he enjoys a pleasure doubly if it is shared by his wife and children . Well , then , in Great Russell - street , Blooms- bury , is the British Museum ; and here , from ten o'clock till four , on Mondays ...
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... ground , and cutting off his re- treat . The skill of this man once saved a large and fertile district of France from inundation by a canal , whose banks the moles had undermined in every di- rection . Le Court alone saw the mischief ...
... ground , and cutting off his re- treat . The skill of this man once saved a large and fertile district of France from inundation by a canal , whose banks the moles had undermined in every di- rection . Le Court alone saw the mischief ...
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Página 29 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 24 - WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name.
Página 8 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Página 150 - Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head...
Página 133 - There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 133 - At that far height the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.
Página 251 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine...
Página 150 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Página 263 - twere always day. With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe ; But sure with patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know. Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy : Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy.
Página 217 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ; Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.