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... visited them , and espe- cially that of 1860 , which spread over and lighted up these old mountains , may testify . Travelers must be allowed to talk and even grumble about hotels ; for these are often the only 4 OLD ENGLAND .
... visited them , and espe- cially that of 1860 , which spread over and lighted up these old mountains , may testify . Travelers must be allowed to talk and even grumble about hotels ; for these are often the only 4 OLD ENGLAND .
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... hotel , but there is a stiffness about it which is not apt to be found . in the best American or Continental hotels . Sel- dom is there a public table ; and if the party com- prise ladies , one is forced , even if staying for a single ...
... hotel , but there is a stiffness about it which is not apt to be found . in the best American or Continental hotels . Sel- dom is there a public table ; and if the party com- prise ladies , one is forced , even if staying for a single ...
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... Hotel . " With every evidence of the most sumptuous abundance , I could not get a morsel of luncheon , and was decidedly informed that it was impossible to be served , that orders must be left four hours beforehand . This was true , as ...
... Hotel . " With every evidence of the most sumptuous abundance , I could not get a morsel of luncheon , and was decidedly informed that it was impossible to be served , that orders must be left four hours beforehand . This was true , as ...
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... hotel when he thought himself cheated to the value of a ten - cêntime piece . He was a rich man , and had made himself . When he had just begun business he discovered by reweighing an article that he had charged a customer a dollar too ...
... hotel when he thought himself cheated to the value of a ten - cêntime piece . He was a rich man , and had made himself . When he had just begun business he discovered by reweighing an article that he had charged a customer a dollar too ...
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... an exceedingly bleak and storm - swept region in winter . At Chel- tenham I stopped at the ancient " Plough Inn , " now a fashionable and luxurious hotel . CHAPTER VII . CHELTENHAM , BRISTOL , AND GLOUCESTER . 114 OLD ENGLAND .
... an exceedingly bleak and storm - swept region in winter . At Chel- tenham I stopped at the ancient " Plough Inn , " now a fashionable and luxurious hotel . CHAPTER VII . CHELTENHAM , BRISTOL , AND GLOUCESTER . 114 OLD ENGLAND .
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Page 405 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 28 - This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 447 - A glorious company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And...
Page 197 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean...
Page 441 - Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 405 - Or whether thou to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Page 97 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 343 - You'll have no scandal while you dine, But honest talk and wholesome wine, And only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine: For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand; And further on, the hoary Channel Tumbles a breaker on chalk and sand; Where, if below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on thro...
Page 352 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee...
Page 411 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me : Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodg'd and trees blown down ; Though castles topple on their warders...