Harry Hope's holidaysGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1871 - 311 стор. |
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Abbey Farm amongst Aunt Mary Balderson beautiful began boat breakfast bright brook Chattaway Christmas cloth elegant Crown 8vo dear dogs Donald dress Elton eyes father Fcap feast flowers Fowkes gilt edges Glen Orracher Grange Grassbrooke HARRISON WEIR Harry heard heart Henry Burberry hill holiday Hot cross buns hounds Illustrations by JOHN JOHN GILBERT knew lady learnt Leighthorpe lichens Loch Katrine merry Michaelmas Miss Ethel morning mother mountain neighbouring night old Jack onward otter passed picturesque pleasant Post 8vo R. M. BALLANTYNE Ravenhall reached replied ring river river Dove road rock round ruins scene Scotland seemed seen shouted side sketching spinney sport Squire Squire's stone story strange stream Sylva tall tell terriers Thorpe Cloud thought Tissington told TOM BURGESS Tom's trees trout uncle vessel village waiting walk watched weather whilst wild wind young
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Сторінка 217 - Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And "What a scene were here...
Сторінка 127 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street, And open fields, and we not...
Сторінка 241 - Where glist'ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem ""^e scenery of a fairy dream.
Сторінка 240 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And higher yet the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Сторінка i - There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower ; On every herb on which you tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod To hope, and holiness, and God.
Сторінка 217 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge...
Сторінка 24 - New faculties, or learns at least to employ More worthily the powers she owned before, Discerns in all things what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlooked, A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, .. . " And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.
Сторінка 89 - Thy flitting form comes ghostly dim and pale, As driven by a beating storm at sea ; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us : Thy wail — What does it bring to me...
Сторінка 37 - Here glittering turrets rise, upheaving high (Fantastic misarrangement !) on the roof Large growth of what may seem the sparkling trees And shrubs of fairyland.