The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... young people , ( bless them ! ) who look for nothing but amusement , may pardonably mistake our gravity for dulness ; we will join we will join them in a romp next time we meet . Even the crusty old gentleman , grown difficult to please ...
... young people , ( bless them ! ) who look for nothing but amusement , may pardonably mistake our gravity for dulness ; we will join we will join them in a romp next time we meet . Even the crusty old gentleman , grown difficult to please ...
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... young choristers and supernumerary priests abound . The visitor accustomed to a simpler form of worship at once observes that the whole building is contrived for effect . It is the edifice which first impresses him , and not the ...
... young choristers and supernumerary priests abound . The visitor accustomed to a simpler form of worship at once observes that the whole building is contrived for effect . It is the edifice which first impresses him , and not the ...
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... young community . Deriving from such an origin , it may be thought that a modified form of the ancient ecclesiastical style is not unsuited to this branch of the Christian family ; and , indeed , it is hardly worth while to resist the ...
... young community . Deriving from such an origin , it may be thought that a modified form of the ancient ecclesiastical style is not unsuited to this branch of the Christian family ; and , indeed , it is hardly worth while to resist the ...
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... young married life . Not high life , nor low life , nor indeed any life that very many know much about as yet it is the home - life of a Cornish miner . miner's daughter ; and belonged therefore to Cornish class , in which some of the ...
... young married life . Not high life , nor low life , nor indeed any life that very many know much about as yet it is the home - life of a Cornish miner . miner's daughter ; and belonged therefore to Cornish class , in which some of the ...
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... young married couple was marked by anything which the scenes outside might be thought to symbolize . There was nothing dreary inside the garden gate , and beneath the humble roof there was comfort and some homely adornment . The ...
... young married couple was marked by anything which the scenes outside might be thought to symbolize . There was nothing dreary inside the garden gate , and beneath the humble roof there was comfort and some homely adornment . The ...
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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...