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Pàgina xii
... beautiful of English Rivers The Practicability of a Ramble up the Wye Embouchure of the Wye The Wye , from Bristol to Chepstow Chepstow Salmon Ruins of Chepstow Castle . Chepstow Castle taken by Parliamentary Forces in 1645 Imprisonment ...
... beautiful of English Rivers The Practicability of a Ramble up the Wye Embouchure of the Wye The Wye , from Bristol to Chepstow Chepstow Salmon Ruins of Chepstow Castle . Chepstow Castle taken by Parliamentary Forces in 1645 Imprisonment ...
Pàgina 12
... beautiful engineering was applied to raise valleys and lower hills . Mountains were crossed with ease ; rivers were spanned over massive piers , or by bridges which hung in the air like fairy platforms . The names of McAdam and Telford ...
... beautiful engineering was applied to raise valleys and lower hills . Mountains were crossed with ease ; rivers were spanned over massive piers , or by bridges which hung in the air like fairy platforms . The names of McAdam and Telford ...
Pàgina 23
... beautiful ships and steamers of all descriptions . The colliers were most nume- rous , and vessels were anchored close to each other , and the river seemed to be almost covered with vessels ; and the masts and yards gave it the ...
... beautiful ships and steamers of all descriptions . The colliers were most nume- rous , and vessels were anchored close to each other , and the river seemed to be almost covered with vessels ; and the masts and yards gave it the ...
Pàgina 35
... beautiful collection of Townley sculptures was purchased ; and by that time the trustees found it desirable to establish a new department in the Mu- seum - the department of Antiquities . In 1814 the Townley collection of bronzes ...
... beautiful collection of Townley sculptures was purchased ; and by that time the trustees found it desirable to establish a new department in the Mu- seum - the department of Antiquities . In 1814 the Townley collection of bronzes ...
Pàgina 38
... beautiful , some more beautiful than robust . On the floor of the room , ranged on either side of a central avenue , are various thick - skinned animals ; such as the elephant , the hippopotamus , rhinoceros , & c . It is quite plain ...
... beautiful , some more beautiful than robust . On the floor of the room , ranged on either side of a central avenue , are various thick - skinned animals ; such as the elephant , the hippopotamus , rhinoceros , & c . It is quite plain ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 15 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Pàgina 3 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pàgina 12 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Pàgina 221 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Pàgina 218 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Pàgina 115 - HERE lies old Hobson ; death hath broke his girt And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
Pàgina 325 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Pàgina 58 - Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow. In lovely contrast to this glorious view, Calmly magnificent, then will we turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Pàgina 218 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Pàgina 13 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.