The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris, Tours, and Rouen, in the Summer of 1847; with a Few Memoranda on French Farming, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1848 - 609 pages |
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Page 82 - I have said, Ye are gods ; and all of you are children of the most high. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Page 49 - Part of its immortality ; the veil Of heaven is half undrawn ; within the pale We stand, and in that form and face behold What Mind can make, when Nature's self would fail...
Page 200 - I call upon the honor of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own! I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character!
Page 266 - Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Page 97 - That none can at our happy seats arrive : While we descend at pleasure, to invade The bad with vengeance, and the good to aid. Our little world, the image of the great, Like that, amidst the boundless ocean set...
Page 147 - When, beneath the nave High arching, the cathedral organ 'gins Its prelude, lingeringly exquisite, — Within retired, the bashful sweetness dwells ; Anon, like sunlight, or the floodgate rush Of waters, bursts it forth, clear, solemn, full. It breaks upon the mazy fretted roof; It coils up round the clustering pillars tall ; It leaps into the cell-like chapels ; strikes Beneath the pavement sepulchres : At once The living temple is instinct, ablaze, With th' uncontroll'd exuberance of sound.
Page 38 - GOD, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire.
Page 150 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Page 263 - Turn to any page of the Reports now before us, and you will find the poor man tempted and tempting his offspring to some petty larceny which shall lay on the parish, the county, or the country the burden of first supporting, ultimately of transporting him — a very natural consummation of...
Page 255 - Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it.