The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful KnowledgeCharles Knight, 1832 |
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... interesting specimen of the manner in which the English production has been imitated across the Atlantic . of 51⁄2 ( in Delaware ) , to one of above 250 ( in the Michi- gan territory ) * . In most of the older states , indeed , it does ...
... interesting specimen of the manner in which the English production has been imitated across the Atlantic . of 51⁄2 ( in Delaware ) , to one of above 250 ( in the Michi- gan territory ) * . In most of the older states , indeed , it does ...
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... interesting addition to their collection by the purchase of three moose - deer , a male and two females . The moose is the largest of the family of deer , and is particularly characterised by the swelling out and projection of the ...
... interesting addition to their collection by the purchase of three moose - deer , a male and two females . The moose is the largest of the family of deer , and is particularly characterised by the swelling out and projection of the ...
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... interesting account of the Editor of that work ; and the extracts from his correspondence , which we shall subsequently give , will furnish an accurate notion of the difficulties which an Emigrant to a new country has to encounter , and ...
... interesting account of the Editor of that work ; and the extracts from his correspondence , which we shall subsequently give , will furnish an accurate notion of the difficulties which an Emigrant to a new country has to encounter , and ...
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... interesting Account of the Kingdom of Caubul ( a country near the higher waters of the Indus , between India and Persia ) , and of the scattered Afghan tribes dependant thereon , gives the following anecdote of the Naikpeekhail , who ...
... interesting Account of the Kingdom of Caubul ( a country near the higher waters of the Indus , between India and Persia ) , and of the scattered Afghan tribes dependant thereon , gives the following anecdote of the Naikpeekhail , who ...
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... interesting as- sociations . The processions of kings , the penances of martyrs , the fierce contests of civil warfare , the gorgeous pageantry of the old citizens , were deprived of their most striking memorials . At last the very ...
... interesting as- sociations . The processions of kings , the penances of martyrs , the fierce contests of civil warfare , the gorgeous pageantry of the old citizens , were deprived of their most striking memorials . At last the very ...
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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.