The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... better can be devised than the oratorios and anthems of the great composers . Better sound music based on sacred themes than all the mummeries of religious art in the place of Christian worship . Such music can bring no desecration on ...
... better can be devised than the oratorios and anthems of the great composers . Better sound music based on sacred themes than all the mummeries of religious art in the place of Christian worship . Such music can bring no desecration on ...
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... better adapted for the celebration of the English liturgical service with strict observance of the rubrical directions . Strange to say , this admired church was designed and built for an eminent Unitarian preacher , and is still in the ...
... better adapted for the celebration of the English liturgical service with strict observance of the rubrical directions . Strange to say , this admired church was designed and built for an eminent Unitarian preacher , and is still in the ...
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... better than you do . ' How they clung to the rocky side of their narrow path , as they followed the voice of John past the dull sepulchre of their late comrade ! Here is another winze ! Keep to this side ! Mind your footing ! ' ' Mercy ...
... better than you do . ' How they clung to the rocky side of their narrow path , as they followed the voice of John past the dull sepulchre of their late comrade ! Here is another winze ! Keep to this side ! Mind your footing ! ' ' Mercy ...
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... change , while the real reason - an indisposition to permit the poor to be better educated - remains unavowed in the background . For VOL . I. NO . I. E many worthy people share this feeling , though they are The Education Controversy . 49.
... change , while the real reason - an indisposition to permit the poor to be better educated - remains unavowed in the background . For VOL . I. NO . I. E many worthy people share this feeling , though they are The Education Controversy . 49.
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... better for him to have sold it ; he would have saved himself a vast deal of trouble . The two brothers , who had not seen him since their separation , came at this very time to pay him a visit . The wife was alone spinning . She told ...
... better for him to have sold it ; he would have saved himself a vast deal of trouble . The two brothers , who had not seen him since their separation , came at this very time to pay him a visit . The wife was alone spinning . She told ...
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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...