The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... still typified in these thick shadowed aisles and ghostly echoes , in ' Windows that exclude the light , And passages that lead to nothing . ' For these reasons the English Gothic would seem to belong 12 Esthetics and Religion .
... still typified in these thick shadowed aisles and ghostly echoes , in ' Windows that exclude the light , And passages that lead to nothing . ' For these reasons the English Gothic would seem to belong 12 Esthetics and Religion .
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... light ' according with a solemn strain of music ; in the exquisite tracery of the pencil , or the still more exquisite warbling of the human voice ; it is high time to ask , Is this worshipping God in spirit and in truth ? is this such ...
... light ' according with a solemn strain of music ; in the exquisite tracery of the pencil , or the still more exquisite warbling of the human voice ; it is high time to ask , Is this worshipping God in spirit and in truth ? is this such ...
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... light of her eyes , a light sweetly accordant with the deep repose of all her other features . Her eye was dark , and was evidently capable of brilliant expression ; but it seemed rather to find placid joy in giving out the utterances ...
... light of her eyes , a light sweetly accordant with the deep repose of all her other features . Her eye was dark , and was evidently capable of brilliant expression ; but it seemed rather to find placid joy in giving out the utterances ...
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... light was shot through them ; but it was really a hazel ; yet one which could flash or melt , search resistlessly or gently draw , mercilessly pursue or modestly retire , as the versatile intellect or honest heart might command . In ...
... light was shot through them ; but it was really a hazel ; yet one which could flash or melt , search resistlessly or gently draw , mercilessly pursue or modestly retire , as the versatile intellect or honest heart might command . In ...
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... light of his candle , and with the aid of pick and gad , and bar , and powder , and safety - fuze , he cuts and blasts his perilous way below the very foundations of his native hills - are , for the most part , tin , lead , and copper ...
... light of his candle , and with the aid of pick and gad , and bar , and powder , and safety - fuze , he cuts and blasts his perilous way below the very foundations of his native hills - are , for the most part , tin , lead , and copper ...
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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...