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Side 49 - She shall be lov'd and fear'd. Her own shall bless her: Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Side 272 - In the space of forty miles," says a writer, "which includes the whole course of the river from the highest and wildest parts of the Peak to the town of Derby, scenery more richly diversified with beauty can hardly anywhere be found. Generally, its banks are luxuriantly wooded ; the oak, the elm, the alder, and the ash, flourish abundantly along its course, beneath the shade of whose united branches the Derwent is sometimes secluded from the eye of the traveller, and becomes a companion for the ear...
Side 269 - Are puddle-water, all, compared with thine; And Loire's pure streams yet too polluted are With thine, much purer, to compare; The rapid Garonne and the winding Seine Are both too mean, Beloved Dove, with thee To vie priority; Nay, Tame and Isis, when conjoined, submit, And lay their trophies at thy silver feet.
Side 84 - Where, with like haste, though several ways they run, Some to undo, and some to be undone ; While luxury and wealth, like war and peace, Are each the other's ruin and increase ; As rivers lost in seas some secret vein Thence reconveys, there to be lost again.
Side 272 - ... spreads through a more open valley, or winding round some huge mountain or rocky precipice, reflects their dark sides as it glides beneath. Sometimes, this ever-varying and everpleasing stream precipitates its foaming waters over the rugged projections and rocky fragments that interrupt its way ; again the ruffled waves subside, and the current steals smoothly and gently through the vale, clear and almost imperceptible in motion.
Side 28 - The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sovs. in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared on or before the 1st of February ; the...
Side 70 - Oaks 5lb. extra; of any two of such races lOlb. extra, but this in any case to be the extreme penalty. The winner of the Somersetshire Stakes, Chester Cup, Ascot Stakes, Northumberland Plate, Cumberland Plate Handicap, or Manchester Trades
Side 147 - THE calm swan rested on the breathless glass Of dreamy waters, and the snow-white steer Near the opposing margin, motionless, Stood, knee-deep, gazing wistful on its clear And lifelike shadow, shimmering deep and fur, Where on the lurid darkness fell the star.
Side 59 - AF the second horse to receive 10 per cent, and the third 5 per cent, out of the stakes.
Side 437 - ... request ; by clipping these into pieces, perfectly cleansing them, and welding them in an air furnace, a metal is produced which surpasses in tenacity, tenuity, and density any fibrous metal ever produced.

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