Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences, Volume 3Bradbury & Evans, 1865 |
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... railway - bridge at Kingston disturbs me not . The whole scene has the repose of solitude with the gaiety of civilization . I sit in the stern of the light but steady craft , not troubling myself even to steer . I am molested not by the ...
... railway - bridge at Kingston disturbs me not . The whole scene has the repose of solitude with the gaiety of civilization . I sit in the stern of the light but steady craft , not troubling myself even to steer . I am molested not by the ...
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... railway now whisks us in an hour . Eighteen years later , as I glanced from the train at the White Horse at Bingen , I longed again to stop for a day or two's enjoyment of its abundant good cheer ; but then had I rested there I could ...
... railway now whisks us in an hour . Eighteen years later , as I glanced from the train at the White Horse at Bingen , I longed again to stop for a day or two's enjoyment of its abundant good cheer ; but then had I rested there I could ...
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... railway stations was unknown . Seven years afterwards it had become universal . Then , in the vicinity of great towns where there was a railway station , the shelves of the newspaper vender were filled with shilling volumes known as the ...
... railway stations was unknown . Seven years afterwards it had become universal . Then , in the vicinity of great towns where there was a railway station , the shelves of the newspaper vender were filled with shilling volumes known as the ...
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... railway companies , may apply to all the movements of social life - when the most busy and the most pleasure - seeking may relish a poet who , with a perfect mastery of harmonious numbers , fills the mind with tranquil images and ...
... railway companies , may apply to all the movements of social life - when the most busy and the most pleasure - seeking may relish a poet who , with a perfect mastery of harmonious numbers , fills the mind with tranquil images and ...
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... railway , called the Salisbury line , now traverses the plain for some miles , passing near the little town of Amesbury , from which Stonehenge is most conveniently approached . This would of itself be evidence that there is still a ...
... railway , called the Salisbury line , now traverses the plain for some miles , passing near the little town of Amesbury , from which Stonehenge is most conveniently approached . This would of itself be evidence that there is still a ...
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Page 171 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 243 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Page 176 - Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 176 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 63 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 284 - ... should be more exerted than when a subject is prosecuted for a libel on the state. The peculiarity of the British constitution (to which, in its fullest extent, we have an undoubted right, however distant we may be from the actual enjoyment, and in which it surpasses every known government in Europe, is this, that its only professed object is the general good, and its only foundation the general will. Hence the people have a right, acknowledged from time immemorial, fortified by a pile of statutes,...
Page 301 - The advised head defends itself at home : For government, though high and low and lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like music.
Page 116 - to encourage life assurance and other provident habits among authors and artists ; to render such assistance to both as shall never compromise their independence ; and to found a new institution where honourable rest from arduous labour shall still be associated with the discharge of congenial duties.
Page 28 - To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth, that after no repenting draws; Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intend, and what the French.