The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, Volume 6Robert Hall Baynes 1869 |
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... given , he grew feverishly impatient for Percy's arrival . Every distant beat of a horse's hoofs on the avenue , every clanging of the great gates of the entrance court - painfully audible in the hush of the quiet house and to the ...
... given , he grew feverishly impatient for Percy's arrival . Every distant beat of a horse's hoofs on the avenue , every clanging of the great gates of the entrance court - painfully audible in the hush of the quiet house and to the ...
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... him his strengthening draught , and after a little rest he spoke again , more calmly . " I should like to live till morning . I could die more happily if I had given my son and daughter my blessing THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BRANDRETH . 7.
... him his strengthening draught , and after a little rest he spoke again , more calmly . " I should like to live till morning . I could die more happily if I had given my son and daughter my blessing THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BRANDRETH . 7.
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Robert Hall Baynes. if I had given my son and daughter my blessing . But you must tell them I repented my harshness . I think I was in a sort of waking dream just now . I fancied I was playing in the lime walk yonder with Norman , as we ...
Robert Hall Baynes. if I had given my son and daughter my blessing . But you must tell them I repented my harshness . I think I was in a sort of waking dream just now . I fancied I was playing in the lime walk yonder with Norman , as we ...
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... given to the cathedral of Moscow by the Czar Godunof weighed 288,000 pounds , and another given by the Empress Ann , probably the largest in A CHAPTER ON CAMPANOLOGY . 27.
... given to the cathedral of Moscow by the Czar Godunof weighed 288,000 pounds , and another given by the Empress Ann , probably the largest in A CHAPTER ON CAMPANOLOGY . 27.
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... given rise to many poems , some of which are inscribed on the bells themselves . Perhaps the finest is Schiller's " Die Glocke , " in which he describes the casting of the bell and its uses . The old inscriptions on bells are in some ...
... given rise to many poems , some of which are inscribed on the bells themselves . Perhaps the finest is Schiller's " Die Glocke , " in which he describes the casting of the bell and its uses . The old inscriptions on bells are in some ...
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Page 1 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 635 - Bridget is so sparing of her speech on most occasions, that when she gets into a rhetorical vein, I am careful how I interrupt it. I could not help, however, smiling at the phantom of wealth which her dear imagination had conjured up out of a clear income of poor hundred pounds a year.
Page 628 - It has been the lot of my cousin, oftener perhaps than I could have wished, to have had for her associates and mine, free-thinkers - leaders, and disciples, of novel philosophies and systems; but she neither wrangles with, nor accepts, their opinions.
Page 641 - ... in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof beautifully painted, but unable to satisfy the mind : and at last, like the pictures of the apartment of a connoisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called; so ever fresh, and green, and warm are all the inventions...
Page 33 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 16 - No dog was at the threshold, great or small ; No pigeon on the roof — no household creature — No cat demurely dozing on the wall — Not one domestic feature.
Page 290 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Page 173 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 636 - ... could you and I at this moment, instead of this quiet argument, by our well-carpeted fireside, sitting on this luxurious sofa — be once more struggling up those inconvenient staircases, pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours, and the delicious Thank God, we are safe...
Page 641 - My attachments are all local, purely local ; I have no passion — or have had none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books — to groves and valleys.