The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... remarkable western families which have kept their own style and standard of female beauty , in spite of time and circumstances ; and it is a high standard too , and a witching style . So many a susceptible observer has proved , while he ...
... remarkable western families which have kept their own style and standard of female beauty , in spite of time and circumstances ; and it is a high standard too , and a witching style . So many a susceptible observer has proved , while he ...
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... remarkable folk , and offering in his typical person a good study of the old western stock . It might be seen that he belonged to a race more excitable and of quicker perception than their Teuton neighbours of Devon ; but not so ...
... remarkable folk , and offering in his typical person a good study of the old western stock . It might be seen that he belonged to a race more excitable and of quicker perception than their Teuton neighbours of Devon ; but not so ...
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... remarkable ; but it was rather , that all the features seemed agreed to be happy in the service of the soul . In his case , however , as it was with his wife , and indeed with many of his tribe , the eye most fully manifested his power ...
... remarkable ; but it was rather , that all the features seemed agreed to be happy in the service of the soul . In his case , however , as it was with his wife , and indeed with many of his tribe , the eye most fully manifested his power ...
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... remarkable variety amidst the many variations of that remarkably variegated province . No , Cornubia has her wooded slopes , and flowery dells , and fruitful fields , and glorious moorlands , and heathy mountain sides , and lovely ...
... remarkable variety amidst the many variations of that remarkably variegated province . No , Cornubia has her wooded slopes , and flowery dells , and fruitful fields , and glorious moorlands , and heathy mountain sides , and lovely ...
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... remarkable fish which periodically swarm on the Cornish coast , they were able generally to garnish their table every day with a grateful , if not a sumptuous meal ; while now and then they managed to honour the Sunday by the enjoyment ...
... remarkable fish which periodically swarm on the Cornish coast , they were able generally to garnish their table every day with a grateful , if not a sumptuous meal ; while now and then they managed to honour the Sunday by the enjoyment ...
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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...