Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland, المجلد 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835 |
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الصفحة 3 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
الصفحة 106 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
الصفحة 76 - Snatch'd through the verdant maze, the hurried eye Distracted wanders; now the bowery walk Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day Falls on the lengthen'd gloom, protracted sweeps: Now meets the bending sky; the river now Dimpling along, the breezy ruffled lake, The forest darkening round, the glittering spire, Th' ethereal mountain, and the distant main.
الصفحة 28 - Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, i And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
الصفحة 162 - Mercy and Truth are met together, and Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other...
الصفحة 164 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her ; tell the towers thereof : mark ye well her bulwarks, and consider her palaces;" — if her elevation, it was,
الصفحة 164 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion. God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
الصفحة 236 - To Norman Abbey whirl'd the noble pair, — An old, old monastery once, and now Still older mansion, — of a rich and rare Mix'd Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it lies perhaps a little low, Because the monks preferr'da hill behind, To shelter their devotion from the wind.
الصفحة 70 - Garrick : On Warwick town and castle fair I've feasted full my wond'ring eyes ; Where things abound antique and rare To strike the stranger with surprise...
الصفحة 82 - The room in which the poet is said to have been born seems to have undergone but little change since that day, and the antique fireplace can scarcely be of later date than the time of Elizabeth. In another room there is a small museum of Shakespearian curiosities (6d. extra). Stratford Church^ in which Shakespeare is buried, is on the bank of the Avon...