A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight ...J. Murray, 1858 - 322 Seiten |
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Seite 120 - A huge sea of verdure, with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive and tufted groves, was tenanted by numberless flocks and herds, which seemed to wander unrestrained and unbounded through the rich pastures. The Thames, here turreted with villas and there garlanded with forests, moved on slowly and placidly, like the mighty monarch of the scene, to whom all its other beauties were but accessories, and bore on his bosom an hundred barks and skiffs, whose white sails and gaily fluttering...
Seite 296 - 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...
Seite 86 - Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes
Seite 123 - GLIDE gently, thus for ever glide, 0 Thames! that other Bards may see As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair River ! come to me. 0 glide, fair Stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow, As thy deep waters now are flowing.
Seite 163 - ... able to keep his own counsel) grew to be common pillage amongst the rest, and the fellow had but one half-crown left for himself at last.
Seite 123 - Glide gently thus, for ever glide, O Thames ! that other bards may see As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river ! come to me. O glide, fair stream ! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow, As thy deep waters now are flowing.
Seite 69 - I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life. We found a shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him...
Seite 120 - Enchanting vale, beyond whate'er the muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss ! O softly-swelling hills, On which the Power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil...
Seite 40 - Faith in Jesus Christ, Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that, there is no solid 'wisdom but in real Piety.
Seite 262 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night ; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again. From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain ; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.