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... death of her mother was placed at school in London . Her holidays had always been spent at Woodville , and no inconsiderable part of her time at her father's house in Grosvenor Square , when the family were residing there . Between ...
... death of her mother was placed at school in London . Her holidays had always been spent at Woodville , and no inconsiderable part of her time at her father's house in Grosvenor Square , when the family were residing there . Between ...
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... death of Mr. Welsh this morning - see ! see ! the water is running over , " and he laid his hand on the tap of the urn . " Oh , there is no cause for alarm ! " cried Charles ; " James is making the most of it . I may have singed a few ...
... death of Mr. Welsh this morning - see ! see ! the water is running over , " and he laid his hand on the tap of the urn . " Oh , there is no cause for alarm ! " cried Charles ; " James is making the most of it . I may have singed a few ...
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... death of Harold , on the sanguinary field of Senlac , about six centuries after its intro- duction by the treachery of Hengist . Edwin Earl of Northumber- land , and Morcar Earl of Mercia , hastened from the disastrous fight to London ...
... death of Harold , on the sanguinary field of Senlac , about six centuries after its intro- duction by the treachery of Hengist . Edwin Earl of Northumber- land , and Morcar Earl of Mercia , hastened from the disastrous fight to London ...
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... death . * Among the inscriptions as shown above , the name of Henry Walpole will be observed . ( In the original , the initial H. is topped by a cross , symbolical , it may be , of his profession of a Jesuit . ) This name suggests the ...
... death . * Among the inscriptions as shown above , the name of Henry Walpole will be observed . ( In the original , the initial H. is topped by a cross , symbolical , it may be , of his profession of a Jesuit . ) This name suggests the ...
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... who were enjoined to restore it to the king , with a message foreboding his death , which shortly after ensued . + Cott . MS . Nero , D. fol . 168. 13 . animal ( urso nostro albo ) and his keeper in ANCIENT LONDON . 25.
... who were enjoined to restore it to the king , with a message foreboding his death , which shortly after ensued . + Cott . MS . Nero , D. fol . 168. 13 . animal ( urso nostro albo ) and his keeper in ANCIENT LONDON . 25.
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Page 450 - Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees.
Page 322 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 451 - Report not. No fantastic carvings show The boast of our vain race to change the form Of thy fair works. But thou art here — thou fill'st The solitude. Thou art in the soft winds That run along the summit of these trees In music ; — thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Page 152 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears.
Page 404 - Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, and man — he dies!
Page 202 - ... bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us, — rest, thou art weary and worn...
Page 202 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 203 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 408 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.
Page 135 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.