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From the Flying Toft, Decern, i

... the' Bio, in the Reign cf Hungus the Pift ; when the faid Hungus making War with Athalftan King of England, faw in the Sky, the Night before the Battle, a bright Crofs, like that on which St, Andrew fuffered Martyrdom, and, the Day proving fuccefsful to ...

Published: Tue 08 Dec 1724
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

From the IVhhehall Evening Pofl, March 1 5

... Year. Yet ail this would be tolerable, if we could procure to ourlelves any other Covering than the Sky at Night; but we have been obliged for three Nights fuc- ceffively ?? bury ourfelves in Snow. Trie Roads are lb terribly bad, that we cannot march above ...

Published: Mon 21 Mar 1748
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... attempted to the Walls that Night, but they flung many Stones upon our Heads, and fired fo much upon us, that we found it impoflible. lay under the Cover of the Sky that Night, and the Ships continued flintjing Bombs into the Fort all Night. The Admirals began ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1756
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... their awful terrors fling j When gloomy night, its raven wing Spreads hovering o'er the vast profound. And swelling billows roar around ; Whilst darkness reigns beneath the pole, Hope is the anchor of my soul*, Nor night, nor storms, shall e'er prevail, My ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1811
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FRENCH -PAPERS

... monuments What others erected upon their ruin t ;!- 7 -What properons dreams vanished-in one day, after. - having been. for„sKy many nights . the consolations of the exile ! Lot Ili dive into our hearts to i , dge our fellow meif, - Let us -place ourselves in ...

Published: Sunday 25 December 1814
Newspaper: Anti-Gallican Monitor
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1168 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

of these, which reached town. last night, is, we imagine, no better founded than that which premiccl it on SunclaV

... too glorious sky!, Come Night, silent, miity; pale, As best befits a lover's sig . !) ! Suspeud the course of yonder That qlurniurs o'er yon auissy ground M y ULIA comes —Be still! be still! For hive will fly the lightest sound. Come Night! and wrap in ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1815
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2007 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... Leiter froutTlypiouth, &stet! Feb n, s say Tlitre was an extraordinary sky here night. About hull-Duet eight it was dark Pod cloudy weather, not a war to be seen, ; suddenly the sky became as light as it would have, been if the moon had been, at the Rill;' ...

Published: Friday 14 February 1817
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 898 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... sleet and rain, and sometimes thunder and lightning, and whose departure it followed by a serene atmosphere and a pure sky. Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning, a storm 'his took place, v/ith all its frightful accompaniments, which unroofed houses ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1817
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4545 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POETRY

... Down to the lakelet’s edge, whose breast of glass Was wrinkled only hy the tardy rain, Dim was the a#spect ot the sullen sky ;— The night scowled gloomier down : —T could not throw From off my heart the weary weight of woe, But loathed the world, and coveted ...

Published: Friday 26 May 1820
Newspaper: Drakard's Stamford News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VISITING years I the scene fancy still in its freshness The spot where school boy all thoughtless I stray’d the

... there sky was blue and the flowers were so fair All scatter’d all sunder’d And some in the cold gravel of the green banks circled around wild flowers with sweet liriar and eglantine crown of the river all stirlcss the face of the sky summer night thought ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1821
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5674 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRESTON GUILD, 1822

... nuil n .S’» •,/re. —Night was clothed deep black, witli thick unpenetrable veil covering nearly all bis person. The veil was studded all over with golden stars, and planets, and formed a fine represent iiioo the clear sky dark night. Some of the planets ...

Published: Tuesday 24 September 1822
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3045 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Stanzas to Scio

... and far; and tomb'd beneath the wave Was its sweet shore—the scene of past delight, And all.was one dark waste ocean, sky, and night. From that sad hour they ne'er were heard of more; The tears that fall for them must fall in vain, For they were wafted ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1823
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 81 | Tags: none