10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIRKIEST»
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lahyrinths, it seemed to those who had improved the taste by travel, the meanest
and the mirkiest capital of Christendom. The streets were marvellously narrow,
the upper stories, chiefly of wood, projecting far over the lower, which were
formed ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1843
As beauty in Death's cerement shrouds, And Stars bejewel Night, God-
splendours live in dim heart-clouds, And suffering worketh might, The mirkiest
hour is mother o' Morn, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn. MARTYRS
FOR ...
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An Address on the Connection of Church and State: Delivered ...
... ours, we'll see whilk will be the mirkiest " — (t. e. the dirtiest) ! ' From a Letter to
the English Churchman, by ' A Dissenter against his Will.' This may contain
exaggerations, but still it gives one side of the picture that ought not to be
overlooked.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1868
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The Last of the Barons. By the author of "Rienzi." The ...
... at a distance, ancient London was inc culab y_more pictures no and stately
than the modern; et, when fairl in its tortuous byrinths, it seemed to those who ad
improved t e taste by travel, the meanest and the mirkiest eapltal of
_Christ_endorn.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1854
This one, however, lacked not only the harvest-moon, but was entirely without
stars, and matched in utter darkness the mirkiest night of midmost winter. Rain
had been falling all the afternoon and evening, and had ceased after twilight only
to ...
6
Lays of the Kirk and Covenant
Then followed Rothes quickly on, Cassilis, and Hay, and Home ; Montrose,8 as if
almost he grudged to lose the foremost room ; Loudon, his country's beacon-light
amid her mirkiest hour, With many a noble name beside, a kingdom's hope and ...
Mrs. A. Stuart Menteath, 1852
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Home thoughts, and public utterances, on entertaining and ...
The mirkiest hour is mother o'Morn, The kingliest Kings are crown' d with thorn.
Heitry Auderton, the Temperance poet and orator, was born at Walton-le-dale,
near Preston. Henry, though poor, was rich. He trusted in a never-failing source
of ...
William Baldwin Affleck, 1866
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The South African Magazine: A Contribution to Colonial ...
As a soldier's wife she boasted that she did not care a bodle for the whole army of
spirits — white, black, or green, and that she would pass through a kirkyard or
haunted place on the mirkiest night, whistling Dimty Davie, and not miss a note ...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with ...
... Awake ! resound thy latest lay — Then sleep in silence evermair ! evermore
And thou, my last, best, only friend, That fillest an untimely tomb, Accept this
tribute from the bard, Thou brought from fortune's mirkiest gloom, darkest " In
poverty's ...
English poets, Robert Inglis (bookseller), 1862
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The last of the barons, by the author of 'Rienzi'. by sir E. ...
... ancient London was incalculably more picturesque and stately than the
modern ; yet, when fairly in its tortuous labyrinths, it seemed to those who had
improved the taste by travel, the meanest and the mirkiest capital cf Christendom.
Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.), 1859
