The Recreations of Christopher North, Bind 2D. Appleton, 1864 - 307 sider |
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... called field - sports . Thus angling seems the earliest of them all in the order of nature . There the new - breeched urchin stands on the low bridge of the little bit burnie ! and with cooked pin , baited with one unwrithing ring of a ...
... called field - sports . Thus angling seems the earliest of them all in the order of nature . There the new - breeched urchin stands on the low bridge of the little bit burnie ! and with cooked pin , baited with one unwrithing ring of a ...
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... called Pussy . The terriers fling up the moss and cock their fuds in the are useful still , preceding the line like skirmish - faces of their pursuers . Yet stanch are they ers , and with finest noses startling the mawkin to the spine ...
... called Pussy . The terriers fling up the moss and cock their fuds in the are useful still , preceding the line like skirmish - faces of their pursuers . Yet stanch are they ers , and with finest noses startling the mawkin to the spine ...
Side 12
... called an ignorant man -- is probably a better - informed man in the long run than the friend on his right , discoursing about the Turks , the Greeks , the Portugals , and all that sort of thing , giving himself the lie on every arrival ...
... called an ignorant man -- is probably a better - informed man in the long run than the friend on his right , discoursing about the Turks , the Greeks , the Portugals , and all that sort of thing , giving himself the lie on every arrival ...
Side 16
... called in the parish- " a leesnance . " Nor , for a year or two , was such a permit necessary ; as we confined ourselves almost exclusively to sparrows . Not that we had any personal animosity to the sparrow in- dividually on the ...
... called in the parish- " a leesnance . " Nor , for a year or two , was such a permit necessary ; as we confined ourselves almost exclusively to sparrows . Not that we had any personal animosity to the sparrow in- dividually on the ...
Side 22
... called Spunkie . What shrieking and tossing of arms , round the whole length and breadth of the village ! Where is Simon Andrew the constable ? Where is auld Robert Maxwell the ruling elder ? What can have become of Laird Warnock ...
... called Spunkie . What shrieking and tossing of arms , round the whole length and breadth of the village ! Where is Simon Andrew the constable ? Where is auld Robert Maxwell the ruling elder ? What can have become of Laird Warnock ...
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Adam Morrison beauty beneath bird blessed bosom braes breath bright Brown Bess Christian Christopher North cliffs clouds cottage creatures Cruachan daugh dead death delight divine dream eagle earth eyes face fear feel feet felt flowers Furness Fells genius glen Glenlivet Gleno gloom glory grave green Hamish hand happy head hear heard heart heather heaven hills holy hour human imagination light living Loch look moor Moray Place morning mountains nature never night once passion poem poet poetry racter religion round Sabbath Scotland Scottish season seems seen shadow shepherd silent silvan sing sitting sleep smile snow Snowy Owl song soul spirit spring stars strong sublime sugh sunshine sweet tarn tears thee thing thou thought tion trees voice walk whole wild Windermere wings wonder woods words Wordsworth young youth
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Side 293 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Side 188 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Side 161 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Side 88 - And sees, on high, amidst th' encircling groves, From cliff to cliff the foaming torrents shine : While waters, woods, and winds, in concert join, And echo swells the chorus to the skies. Would Edwin this majestic scene resign For aught the huntsman's puny craft supplies? Ah! no: he better knows great Nature's charms to prize.
Side 264 - Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon it in the spirit of genuine imagination.
Side 47 - Now Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Side 258 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft hath just been shot - the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Side 189 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Side 186 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church...
Side 198 - Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. 9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.