The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... appearance of an interesting volume now before us . * It is an eloquent eulo- gium and defence of ecclesiastical art - music as practised in the ancient Church ; and the utmost learning and enthusiasm are brought by the ingenious author ...
... appearance of an interesting volume now before us . * It is an eloquent eulo- gium and defence of ecclesiastical art - music as practised in the ancient Church ; and the utmost learning and enthusiasm are brought by the ingenious author ...
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... appearance amidst their rough work in open sheds , and among heaps of tin and copper ore . Who can forget the cast of feature c 2 A Chapter in Cornish Life . 19 Sweetly sound the white men's sermons, how their God ...
... appearance amidst their rough work in open sheds , and among heaps of tin and copper ore . Who can forget the cast of feature c 2 A Chapter in Cornish Life . 19 Sweetly sound the white men's sermons, how their God ...
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... appearance , to the tyranny of tobacco and gin ; and the wife agreed with him that life had sweets enough for them without indulgence in sugar . Their bit of ground , hedged in from the waste , and well kept , gave them a potato crop ...
... appearance , to the tyranny of tobacco and gin ; and the wife agreed with him that life had sweets enough for them without indulgence in sugar . Their bit of ground , hedged in from the waste , and well kept , gave them a potato crop ...
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... appearance . Now , however , he soon appeared in his loose woollen shirt and trousers ; his head was shielded from the effect of falling stones or rubbish by his hat- cap , ' the hard broad - brimmed miner's helmet ; a coarse tallow ...
... appearance . Now , however , he soon appeared in his loose woollen shirt and trousers ; his head was shielded from the effect of falling stones or rubbish by his hat- cap , ' the hard broad - brimmed miner's helmet ; a coarse tallow ...
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... appearance of the treatise before us , which promised to supply the want . Dr. Angus , who is well known as an accomplished scholar spe- cially conversant with the English language , has here embo- died the results of immense and varied ...
... appearance of the treatise before us , which promised to supply the want . Dr. Angus , who is well known as an accomplished scholar spe- cially conversant with the English language , has here embo- died the results of immense and varied ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...