The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... seemed best to exclude all notion of the beating elements , insured a welcome and imposing shade of awe and reverence . Unfortunately , this grand type of Christian edifice rose in the corrupt and superstitious age of Christianity , and ...
... seemed best to exclude all notion of the beating elements , insured a welcome and imposing shade of awe and reverence . Unfortunately , this grand type of Christian edifice rose in the corrupt and superstitious age of Christianity , and ...
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... seemed rather to find placid joy in giving out the utterances of a soul in which peacefulness was power . To meet its glance was , in fact , to feel as if peace itself were looking into you . It was this quiet looking forth of the ...
... seemed rather to find placid joy in giving out the utterances of a soul in which peacefulness was power . To meet its glance was , in fact , to feel as if peace itself were looking into you . It was this quiet looking forth of the ...
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... 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 . Some would take it for black , when first its ...
... 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 . Some would take it for black , when first its ...
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... seemed to be on her part a presentiment of danger . There was always danger , of course . The miner's occupation was never without great risk . He might be buried alive at any moment ; or dashed to pieces at a false step , or shattered ...
... seemed to be on her part a presentiment of danger . There was always danger , of course . The miner's occupation was never without great risk . He might be buried alive at any moment ; or dashed to pieces at a false step , or shattered ...
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... seemed to be in danger of losing their self - possession . The tide of despair was setting in with the rising waters . O John , we are lost ! ' ' Tis all over with us now ! ' cried one and another ; but Penberthy called them to another ...
... seemed to be in danger of losing their self - possession . The tide of despair was setting in with the rising waters . O John , we are lost ! ' ' Tis all over with us now ! ' cried one and another ; but Penberthy called them to another ...
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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...