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The life and letters of R. S. Hawker: (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow)

 By Charles Edward Byles

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Full view - 1905 - 689 pages - Biography & Autobiography


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Robert Stephen Hawker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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RPO -- Selected Poetry of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-1875)
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Exeter - Page 515
LSD I infer from the Ratting Leader in the Times that Lord Derby is looming in the distance — if so Jacobson even yet may be a Bishop and of Exeter. ...
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Plymouth - Page 638
The first Sunday evening we were in Plymouth he attended the only Service at the Cathedra] at which he was ever present. ...
more pages: 101 177 199 200 211 350 510 632 635 636
Swansea - Page 465
She is by this time safe in Swansea over against. Last Night sitting here at midnight with everything so still the long distant howl of the dogs ...
more pages: 463
Oxford - Page 121
Although the Tractarian movement had begun to stir the mind of Oxford in his undergraduate days, he left the University too early to be much concerned ...
more pages: 18 304 311 385 455 509 515 576 584 611
Cardiff - Page 466
Stevens, a Solicitor in Cardiff, as to my readiness to go to London to give evidence as to the behaviour of the Men of Clovelly in the affair ...
more pages: 581 686
Lambeth - Page 612
I never felt more impressed than by the gleam of Paradise as we turned in from the dull lanes and streets of Lambeth, into your lighted Hall of God. ...
more pages: 611 623
Jerusalem - Page 533
distance than from Padstow to my glebe — namely from the Altar of Burnt offering at Jerusalem to the brook Cherith beyond Jordan where Elijah lay. ...
more pages: 105 186 215 314 378
Canterbury - Page 593
The visitor was Bishop Jackson, who had succeeded Tait when the latter was translated to Canterbury. The Vicar and the Bishop were evidently not in ...
more pages: 577 586
St. Augustine - Page 513
makes me mad is that I see the Miracles and Wonders of Revelation received with reverent belief by such majestic intellects as St. Augustine and St. ...
more pages: 555
Rome - Page 204
appealed in vain to the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. This triumph of Erastianism drove Manning and many others to Rome.
more pages: 85 178 183 184 240 284 322 429 647
London - Page 501
She is now in London with her mother and I hear every day. Besides the disparity of years her friends at once suggested that objection which occurs to ...
more pages: 30 85 145 256 466 468 490 509 613 630
Dublin - Page 285
Fortescue you mention, there was another of the same family (The Castle Hill), who died in Dublin four or five years since, and for whom I wrote, ...
more pages: 284 286 676
Saint John's - Page 169
At the trial, when the counsel for the other side referred to the well as Sir John's well, Hawker emphatically called it Saint John's well. ...
Liverpool - Page 333
It was from another and a previous Wife in Liverpool ! What a Scene of adventure and romance for our rustic watering place by the Sea. ...
more pages: 396 681
Waterloo - Page 10
At the time of Waterloo the Colonel was in command of the Cornwall Provisional Cavalry. He was also a magistrate for Devon and Cornwall. ...
more pages: 281
Charlotte - Page 143
Hawker, on which occasions it is said that he used to open the prayers with " Dearly beloved Charlotte ! the Scripture moveth us, etc. ...
more pages: 500
Cambridge - Page 33
Francis Doyle,1 in language far from complimentary, that Hawker made use of Macaulay"s prize poem ' Pompeii ' written at Cambridge eight years before. ...
more pages: 394 683
Taunton - Page 480
Mills who was Agnes Acland the Wife now of Mills Member for Taunton. " How the world outside my Vicarage marches on while I stand still. ...
Pembroke - Page 17
At Pembroke he had made the acquaintance of Francis Jeune, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough. Other friends were William Jacobson, of Lincoln College, ...
more pages: 19
Bristol - Page 13
A silver snuff-box still in existence bears the inscription, " This box is gratefully presented to Wrey I'ans, Esq., by Jere Hill & Sons, of Bristol, ...
more pages: 77 463 673
Ipswich - Page 569
Do you know that your good advice as to the regulation of the mind recalls to my recollection a Lecture to Young Men delivered at Ipswich some years ...
Southampton - Page 304
Children, relatives to a friend of ours, have arrived at Southampton. Mrs. with nose cut off, her Children both hands ! ! and hundreds of others, ...
Phoenix - Page 163
may the blessing of God ever reward you for your kind hospitality towards the distressed." In the following year, 1843, the schooner Phoenix, of St.
Florence - Page 16
Her elder sister, Florence, shone in conversation, and was yet more good-looking. In the society of these ladies, at Bude, Hawker spent most of his ...
York - Page 394
York ? Field,1 Vicar of Madingley, where the Prince of Wales sojourned while at Cambridge, and his Wife, dined with us last week. ...
Windsor - Page 388
said to share his bias — hence that calmness which proceeds from the tenet that Death is a mere withdrawal of the Body, The Soul is at Windsor still. ...
more pages: 683
New York - Page 517
On the principle that I should advise no one to go into the Servants' Hall while a row exists I should counsel a friend not to enter New York or any ...
more pages: 516 665
Northampton - Page 210
He has been down at Northampton this year — in all likelihood he has had something to do with this Papal Bull, as he had with the French Revolution in ...
Syracuse - Page 227
It was breathed into my mind that, in Syracuse as in Corinth, ' to pluck out the eyes for a friend ' signifies to give the best and dearest thing we ...
Gloucester - Page 159
On the ist of September we sailed from Falmouth for Gloucester, with a fair wind. We sailed about daybreak. We made the Land's End about 5 o'clock in ...
Genoa - Page 413
Afterwards in the Time of Solomon she describes it as a Vessel of deep veneration, and there is now at Genoa a dish — one pure emerald — which they ...
Bombay - Page 396
She was the Bencoolen from Liverpool for Bombay with Machinery for some new Cotton-cleansing plan in India and for Telegraphic lines on Railways, ...
Glasgow - Page 299
[With reference to a murder trial at Glasgow] . . . There is something to me so awful in the Sin of Cities, that I don't think I could live in one to ...
Seville - Page 46
Jameson's ' Legends of the Monastic Orders ' (PP- '44-6)- Compare Murillo's picture at Seville of the Vision of St. ...
Bolton - Page 672
See Vestments Corney, Bolton, 435 ' Cornish Ballads,' 572, 580 , binding of new edil , Hawker's prophecy , Longfellow's opinic.
Harris, Miss - Page 676
576 , on Hawker's first marriage, 16 Harris, Miss, of Hayne, 168 Harris, WG, x., 116, 155 Harrowby, The Earl of, at Morwen- stow, 316-7, 373 Hartland, ...
Drake, Miss - Page 673
35 Doyle, Sir Francis, 33 Drake, Miss, 421 Drayton, 'Polyolbion,' 378 'Dream of Gerontius,' 545 Dress, Hawker's eccentricities of, 83-86, 187, 503-4, ...
Derby - Page 680
Louise Chandler, 658 Moontjoy, R, A., 47, +78, 496, 590 , letters to, 531 f Mozley, of Derby, publisher, 252, 381 Mozley, Timti critic, at Morwenstow, ...
Launceston - Page 51
The manor of Eastway," says Lysons, " which belonged to the priory of Launceston, was one of those annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall (by Henry VIII. ...
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Ulverstone - Page 278
Watson among the rest in chronological order. '' She afterwards lived at Bath, at Ulverstone, and at Grange in Lancashire.
Song. Be - Page 392
Our Harvest Home was chimed last Saturday Night not without Song. Be it %vell known that until my Corn was safe beneath the thatch my Warden Cann (our ...
Honolulu - Page 353
The Islanders of the Pacific in Honolulu call a King by a word which signifies The lonely one, because their lofty Place is shared by none and they ...

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So Lord Howard past away with five ships of war that day, Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven ; But Sir Richard bore in hand all his sick men from the land Very carefully and slow, Men of Bideford in Devon, And we laid them on the ballast down below: For we brought them all aboard, And they blest him in their pain, that they were not left to Spain, To the thumb-screw and the stake, for the glory of the Lord.Page 78
That thy way may be known upon earth : thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God : yea, let all the people praise thee.Page 203
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.Page 154
Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...Page 217
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.Page 596
His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!Page 682
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.Page 558
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Page 346
Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent...Page 78
These are the things that ye shall do, Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour ; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates : And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour ; and love no false oath : for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.Page 208

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