The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Том 2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 |
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... St Marguerite , is now , for the first time , engraved from an original sketch . It is one of a series of five , built in a row on the scarp of the rocky cliff . The ST ... ST SWITHIN'S DAY . man equally noted for his uprightness. 61.
... St Marguerite , is now , for the first time , engraved from an original sketch . It is one of a series of five , built in a row on the scarp of the rocky cliff . The ST ... ST SWITHIN'S DAY . man equally noted for his uprightness. 61.
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... ST SWITHIN'S DAY . man equally noted for his uprightness and humi- lity . So far did he carry the latter quality ... St Swithin , and , instead of disturbing his remains , they erected a chapel over his grave , at which many ...
... ST SWITHIN'S DAY . man equally noted for his uprightness and humi- lity . So far did he carry the latter quality ... St Swithin , and , instead of disturbing his remains , they erected a chapel over his grave , at which many ...
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... ST SWITHIN'S DAY . at the grave ; and of another individual , who recovered by the same means from a grievous ailment in his eyes . These preternatural occur- rences were all duly reported to King Edgar , who thereupon gave directions ...
... ST SWITHIN'S DAY . at the grave ; and of another individual , who recovered by the same means from a grievous ailment in his eyes . These preternatural occur- rences were all duly reported to King Edgar , who thereupon gave directions ...
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... St Swithin's infalli- bility was in nowise to be shaken . The same author mentions a pretty saying current in some parts of the country when rain falls on St Swithin's Day : St Swithin is christening the apples . ' It is only to be ...
... St Swithin's infalli- bility was in nowise to be shaken . The same author mentions a pretty saying current in some parts of the country when rain falls on St Swithin's Day : St Swithin is christening the apples . ' It is only to be ...
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... St Swithin's Day is much regarded here as a prognostication of fine or wet weather ; but I am happy to think that the saint failed to keep his promise this year , and though he rained on his own day , did not feel himself obliged to go ...
... St Swithin's Day is much regarded here as a prognostication of fine or wet weather ; but I am happy to think that the saint failed to keep his promise this year , and though he rained on his own day , did not feel himself obliged to go ...
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Стр. 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Стр. 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Стр. 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Стр. 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Стр. 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
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Стр. 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Стр. 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Стр. 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Стр. 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...