Old England: Its Scenery, Art, and PeopleHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1887 - 502 pages |
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Abbey American ancient arches architecture beautiful Bishop bridge broad buildings called carved castle Cathedral chapel Charlotte Brontë Christ Christian church cliffs coal Cornwall Derbyshire Devonshire England English Englishman Exeter faith feet flowers Fountains Abbey garden Grasmere green Haddon Hall Hall heart Helm Crag Helvellyn hills Hotel hundred Isle of Wight King lake land Land's End Lichfield light lived London look Lord magnificent meadows ment miles mind modern monument mountain Nab Scar Nature noble Norman Norman architecture Oxford painted palace picture plain pleasant poet preaching region rich river road rock Salisbury Cathedral Saxon scene scenery seemed seen side Skiddaw spire spirit spot stands stone Street style thing thought Tintern Abbey tion tower town trees true truth vale vast village walk walls whole Wilton House Wordsworth young
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Page 403 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 28 - 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 ! The river glideth at his own sweet...
Page 283 - ... 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...
Page 403 - Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise...
Page 97 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 352 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee...
Page 199 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 217 - Not raised in nice proportions was the pile, But large and massy ; for duration built ; "With pillars crowded, and the roof upheld By naked rafters intricately crossed, Like leafless underboughs, in some thick wood, All withered by the depth of shade above.
Page 343 - You'll have no scandal while you dine, But honest talk and wholesome wine, And only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine : For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand ; And further on, the hoary Channel Tumbles a billow on chalk and sand ; Where, if below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on thro...
Page 238 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.