Loiterings among the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, by the author of 'Wanderings in the Isle of Wight'. |
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... hours and his years in the pursuit of trifles , gewgaws of fame , and baubles of glittering dust ; while the time is ... hour - glass of life , in unavailing regret that the grains which have run by have passed so swiftly ? No , no ! If ...
... hours and his years in the pursuit of trifles , gewgaws of fame , and baubles of glittering dust ; while the time is ... hour - glass of life , in unavailing regret that the grains which have run by have passed so swiftly ? No , no ! If ...
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... hours ; Mankind has not the power to bind them , Time flies - we look , and cannot find them . ' " " An elderly gentleman , who was looking at the moul- dering ruin , spoke to me of the sandstone , limestone , slate , and granite of the ...
... hours ; Mankind has not the power to bind them , Time flies - we look , and cannot find them . ' " " An elderly gentleman , who was looking at the moul- dering ruin , spoke to me of the sandstone , limestone , slate , and granite of the ...
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... hours of the day , and from different points of view . You may sail up and down it , you may cross it by the ferry , and you may ride along its banks again and again , without discovering half its beauties . To see the whole , you must ...
... hours of the day , and from different points of view . You may sail up and down it , you may cross it by the ferry , and you may ride along its banks again and again , without discovering half its beauties . To see the whole , you must ...
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... and look lovely to - day ; But the wintry hour , and the sun - stroke of power , May pass o'er them , and drive them away . ' 399 26 CHAPTER III . LOITERINGS ABOUT GRASMERE WATER . Different LOITERINGS ABOUT WINDERMERE . 25.
... and look lovely to - day ; But the wintry hour , and the sun - stroke of power , May pass o'er them , and drive them away . ' 399 26 CHAPTER III . LOITERINGS ABOUT GRASMERE WATER . Different LOITERINGS ABOUT WINDERMERE . 25.
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... hours . Its sides were formed of many - coloured slaty stone , fes- tooned with creeping and pendant plants , that hung from them in romantic profusion , while three or four streams poured down in different directions from the top . I ...
... hours . Its sides were formed of many - coloured slaty stone , fes- tooned with creeping and pendant plants , that hung from them in romantic profusion , while three or four streams poured down in different directions from the top . I ...
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Page 138 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 138 - COMMIT thou all thy griefs And ways into His hands, To His sure truth and tender care, Who earth and heaven commands.
Page 27 - MY God ! the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Page 83 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 190 - Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Page 184 - The Dog, which still was hovering nigh, Repeating the same timid cry, This Dog, had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place.
Page 160 - To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Page 182 - Paled in by many a lofty hill, The narrow dale lay smooth and still, And? down its verdant bosom led, A winding brooklet found its bed.
Page 184 - This dog had been through three months' space A dweller in that savage place. Yes, proof was plain that since the day On which the traveller thus had died The dog had watched about the spot, Or by his master's side : How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate.
Page 138 - Thou on the Lord rely, so safe shalt thou go on; fix on his work thy steadfast eye, so shall thy work be done. No profit canst thou gain by self-consuming care; to him commend thy cause; his ear attends the softest prayer.