The Town of Cowper: Or, The Literary and Historical Associations of Olney and Its NeighborhoodS. Lor, Marston & Company, 1893 - 224 páginas |
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... garden containing it is now a separate property . It had formerly served an apothecary ( Mr. Aspray ) as a smoking - room , and in the floor is still a trap- door , " which , " says Cowper , " covered a hole in the ground where he ( the ...
... garden containing it is now a separate property . It had formerly served an apothecary ( Mr. Aspray ) as a smoking - room , and in the floor is still a trap- door , " which , " says Cowper , " covered a hole in the ground where he ( the ...
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... garden he says , " The very stones in the wall are my intimate acquaint- ance - I should miss almost the minutest object . " Sir James Mackintosh , Hugh Miller , Elihu Burritt , and numbers of other distinguished personages have at ...
... garden he says , " The very stones in the wall are my intimate acquaint- ance - I should miss almost the minutest object . " Sir James Mackintosh , Hugh Miller , Elihu Burritt , and numbers of other distinguished personages have at ...
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... garden mats , and the floor covered with a carpet , the sun too , in a great measure , excluded by an awning of mats , which forbids him to shine anywhere except upon the carpet , it affords us by far the pleasantest retreat in Olney ...
... garden mats , and the floor covered with a carpet , the sun too , in a great measure , excluded by an awning of mats , which forbids him to shine anywhere except upon the carpet , it affords us by far the pleasantest retreat in Olney ...
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... garden and the Lordship Close , stood formerly a chantry or chapel to 1 Projecting water - spouts . They are not infrequently figures of animals . 2 Sir Gilbert Scott was born at Gawcott , near Buckingham , on July 13 , 1811 , and died ...
... garden and the Lordship Close , stood formerly a chantry or chapel to 1 Projecting water - spouts . They are not infrequently figures of animals . 2 Sir Gilbert Scott was born at Gawcott , near Buckingham , on July 13 , 1811 , and died ...
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... garden . Cowper and Mrs. Unwin visited Olney on August 3 , but had not made up their minds when they returned . The question was whether they should take a comfortable house at Emberton , with a mile of road , often well - nigh ...
... garden . Cowper and Mrs. Unwin visited Olney on August 3 , but had not made up their minds when they returned . The question was whether they should take a comfortable house at Emberton , with a mile of road , often well - nigh ...
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acquaintance afterwards Alice Lorraine ancient Andrew Fuller appearance Artists Baptist Bayard Series beautiful called Carey chancel Clifton CLIFTON REYNES commenced Cowper's Oak death died Digby edit Emberton English Everard Digby father Fuller garden Gauntlett Gayhurst Gentle Life Series George Wrighte gilt Hackleton Hall Hayley hymn illust James John Newton John Sutcliff labours Lady Austen Lady Hesketh Lavendon letter lived London Lord Dartmouth Low's Stand Low's Standard Books Low's Standard Novels Low's Standard Series mansion meeting miles mind ministers Missionary neighbourhood never Newport Pagnell Northampton Olney Church Olney Hymns parish pastor poems poet Cowper prayer preached present published residence Reynes Robert Ryland says Scott sermon Sir Everard Stoke Stoke Goldington stone Stories Sutcliff Thomas thought Throckmorton town trees Unwin vicar Vicarage village vols walk Weston Underwood whilst William William Carey words Wrighte writes wrote Yardley
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Página 47 - 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.
Página 55 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Página 178 - From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.
Página 162 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Página 63 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary...
Página 57 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, Eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace.
Página 29 - III. Secret of the Island . . The Child of the Cavern . . . The Begum's Fortune .... The Tribulations of a Chinaman The Steam House, 2 vols.: — I.
Página 107 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 50 - SOMETIMES a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing in his wings; When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again, A season of clear shining, To cheer it after rain.
Página 56 - Short-lived themselves, to immortalise their bones. Some seek diversion in the tented field, And make the sorrows of mankind their sport. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.