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... long in populous cities pent , Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air , Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd , from each thing met conceives delight : " and the gentle ...
... long in populous cities pent , Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air , Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd , from each thing met conceives delight : " and the gentle ...
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Page 226 - The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years.
Page 26 - Sir, this is none other but the hand of God; and to Him alone belongs the glory, wherein none are to share with Him.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Volume 3 Knight's Weekly volume |
| Author | James Thorne |
| Publisher | C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 253 pages |
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