The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-makings, Antiquities & Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year; & a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacW. Tegg, 1832 - 856 pages |
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... light of truth . Wordsworth . Most of us may find , that we have much to unlearn : yet evil indeed must we be , if we do not desire that our children may not be worse for what they learn from us , and what they gather from their ...
... light of truth . Wordsworth . Most of us may find , that we have much to unlearn : yet evil indeed must we be , if we do not desire that our children may not be worse for what they learn from us , and what they gather from their ...
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... lights the people - thinning star That selfishness invokes , -the horsed war Panting along with many a bloody mane . I ... light , Me and my friends here this delightful night , That Power itself has not one half the might Of Gentleness ...
... lights the people - thinning star That selfishness invokes , -the horsed war Panting along with many a bloody mane . I ... light , Me and my friends here this delightful night , That Power itself has not one half the might Of Gentleness ...
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... light ; on one side of which were the sun , moon , and planets , and on the other side the story of the birth and passion of Christ as it is found graved by a king of Scots [ David II . ] that was prisoner in Notting- ham . " Sir John ...
... light ; on one side of which were the sun , moon , and planets , and on the other side the story of the birth and passion of Christ as it is found graved by a king of Scots [ David II . ] that was prisoner in Notting- ham . " Sir John ...
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... light . This was the usual cry of the old Lon- don bellman . It is mentioned as such by Heywood in the " Rape of Lucrece . " Lantern and candle light - here , Maids ha ' light there , Thus go the cries The same writer , in " Edward IV ...
... light . This was the usual cry of the old Lon- don bellman . It is mentioned as such by Heywood in the " Rape of Lucrece . " Lantern and candle light - here , Maids ha ' light there , Thus go the cries The same writer , in " Edward IV ...
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... light , far beyond that of the brightest day . It faded away by sensible degrees , and about seven o'clock a sun of streamers crossed the sky , which undulated like the surface of a rippling water , and caused great alarm . In about ...
... light , far beyond that of the brightest day . It faded away by sensible degrees , and about seven o'clock a sun of streamers crossed the sky , which undulated like the surface of a rippling water , and caused great alarm . In about ...
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Page 118 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 199 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 380 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 211 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Page 269 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 196 - From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 612 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 493 - I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Page 195 - Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring...
Page 277 - UP with me ! up with me into the clouds ! For thy song, Lark, is strong; Up with me, up with me into the clouds ! Singing, singing, With clouds and sky about thee ringing, Lift me, guide me till I find That spot which seems so to thy mind...