Environs of London: Western DivisionWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1842 - 356 páginas |
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... less a companion than an indicator ; we can criticise for ourselves . So we can , in making these our excursions , reflect for ourselves ; and there appears somewhat of assumption in a topographer teaching his readers to think . His ...
... less a companion than an indicator ; we can criticise for ourselves . So we can , in making these our excursions , reflect for ourselves ; and there appears somewhat of assumption in a topographer teaching his readers to think . His ...
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... less imaginative class , however indifferent he may feel with respect to the associations of places on his route , is yet anxious to be informed of their names : they who are incurious of reflection , are yet curious of inquiry . The ...
... less imaginative class , however indifferent he may feel with respect to the associations of places on his route , is yet anxious to be informed of their names : they who are incurious of reflection , are yet curious of inquiry . The ...
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... less incredible . " Cooke , the translator of Hesiod , author of a Life of Andrew Marvell , translations of Terence and Cicero , an edition of Virgil , and for some years editor of a paper called The Craftsman , resided at South Lambeth ...
... less incredible . " Cooke , the translator of Hesiod , author of a Life of Andrew Marvell , translations of Terence and Cicero , an edition of Virgil , and for some years editor of a paper called The Craftsman , resided at South Lambeth ...
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... less sum than that paid for this morass . Wonder has been expressed that another site , with some semblance of fitness for its purpose , was not adopted ; but wonder now is equally absurd and vain . The erection of this pest - house ...
... less sum than that paid for this morass . Wonder has been expressed that another site , with some semblance of fitness for its purpose , was not adopted ; but wonder now is equally absurd and vain . The erection of this pest - house ...
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... less admirable account of the visit of Sir Roger De Coverley to Vauxhall in the company of the Spectator . Thus only will Vauxhall be remembered ; not by its fine gentlemen or finer ladies , not by its rope - dancers , opera - singers ...
... less admirable account of the visit of Sir Roger De Coverley to Vauxhall in the company of the Spectator . Thus only will Vauxhall be remembered ; not by its fine gentlemen or finer ladies , not by its rope - dancers , opera - singers ...
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Página 262 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweetbriar or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Página 295 - That every man, with him, was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Página 261 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 229 - I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I began to read, and...
Página 5 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Página 295 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Página 261 - 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.
Página 270 - My eye descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays: Thames! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity...
Página 5 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 145 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand: To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign, Thro...