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... castle is seen , hanging on the slope of the hills . The road from about this point to Bangor is a triumph of engineering skill . Sometimes the track is crowded between the mountains and the sea so narrowly , that in stormy weather the ...
... castle is seen , hanging on the slope of the hills . The road from about this point to Bangor is a triumph of engineering skill . Sometimes the track is crowded between the mountains and the sea so narrowly , that in stormy weather the ...
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... castle of the ancient kings of England , who finally suc- ceeded in dominating over Wales , partly by force and partly by politic concession . Height gives the singular majesty which is so marked in the remains of Caernarvon Castle ...
... castle of the ancient kings of England , who finally suc- ceeded in dominating over Wales , partly by force and partly by politic concession . Height gives the singular majesty which is so marked in the remains of Caernarvon Castle ...
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... castle has a sober grandeur that all the changes of time cannot de- stroy . A featureless statue of King Edward I. stands above the gateway arch . An area of three acres is said to be inclosed by the walls . It is a good place to study ...
... castle has a sober grandeur that all the changes of time cannot de- stroy . A featureless statue of King Edward I. stands above the gateway arch . An area of three acres is said to be inclosed by the walls . It is a good place to study ...
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... harvest moon silvering an old castle with a broad - winged bird of night flying athwart its face , is more to the taste of these bright - fancied playful artists . F Holman Hunt's picture of the " Finding of Christ 50 OLD ENGLAND .
... harvest moon silvering an old castle with a broad - winged bird of night flying athwart its face , is more to the taste of these bright - fancied playful artists . F Holman Hunt's picture of the " Finding of Christ 50 OLD ENGLAND .
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... castle - like walls and buildings form the prominent object in the small country town . It is indeed all the place . Its army of boys and teachers over- whelm every other interest and association . The school was founded in Queen ...
... castle - like walls and buildings form the prominent object in the small country town . It is indeed all the place . Its army of boys and teachers over- whelm every other interest and association . The school was founded in Queen ...
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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...