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Page 433 - In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard — but witness mine!
Page 119 - The coroner's inquisition resulted in a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.
Page 338 - Dark green was that spot mid the brown mountain heather, Where the Pilgrim of Nature lay stretch'd in decay, Like the corpse of an outcast abandon'd to weather, Till the mountain-winds wasted the tenantless clay. Nor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much-loved remains of her master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away.
Page 338 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber; When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start; How many long days and long weeks didst...
Page 433 - Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 333 - If the servant of a horse-dealer, with express directions not to warrant, do warrant, the master is bound ; because the servant, having a general authority to sell, is in a condition to warrant, and the master has not notified to the world that the general authority is circumscribed.
Page 154 - Old Philip" of Tennyson, as regarded the coltish chronicle, and one of our pleasantest paddock walks some twelve years ago with him, was to see Lanercost in his stall, and then on to the Muley Moloch mare, and divers others which gambolled about with foals and yearlings beneath the York walls. His room was characteristic. A large-sized Lanercost, painted by Herring Senior, stood over the fire, and Chorister, St. Giles, Lottery, and others, all bits of his favourite blood, kept it in countenance....
Page 226 - This is a step in the right way, and ought to be in the hands of the youth of both sexes.
Page 260 - The next day, while fishing near the spot named by our four-pound friend, I hooked his veritable fish with the gut and two flies attached. He was a fine trout, and fought well, in defiance of his harness. I took him to the hotel, together with some larger than himself, and in the evening...
Page 198 - As no one, who knows what he is about in good company, would venture to talk all; so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all: The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.