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(From the Mark ’anr Frjfrftt. of Saturday.)

... have had very powerful sunshine, with a ciondless (Saturday) we sky to-night. Corresponding changes appear to have taken place all ove r the country , the heavy showers of Tuesday night seem to have been very general, our letters from all paris of the ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1841
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2010 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Literary Extracts

... thing of redaction is supernatural throughout. The wildest frolic an opium-eater's reverie is nothing to the phantas of the sky to-night. Karnacks of ice turned down were resting upon rainbow-coloured pc; great needles, obelisks of pure whiteness, shot . jP ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1854
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

From local matter* that this week press for consideration, must select two upon which to sajr few words. want know,

... darkness for so many nights about once month? Why? Because it appears that our Commissioners, like the Corporation the City London in the seventeenth century, who thought thsj Hemiso’s Lanterns” were only needed “ moonless nights, think that when the ...

CHEADLE

... there were strong wind and heavy rain, changing in the afternoon to anow, which fell, however, only tog a abort time, the sky at night being remarkably bright and dear. Ihe hurricane on Saturday seemed to have shown its greatest force along the valley in ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1869
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1895 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE HOMERIC IDEA OF BEAUTY

... champaign, we seem here to have a distinct appreciation of the beauty of scenery. The famous simile of the watch-fires and the sky by night appears to carry some'hing of a like interpretation. Aid as regards ' the more limited combinations of what may be termed ...

MB. T. HUGHES IN AMERICA

... of November meteors, and expresses belief (hat on the nights of November 11-15, alter twelve, many meteors will be risible, and that intervals on the nights of November 12-13 (that is, the nights between November 12-13 and November 18-14), there will ...

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

... didn't let concealment, etc., but told his love in the following highly melo-dramatic fashion: In the Amber ight Of the sky—one night— I tore my bosom apart, And under a moon Of the fervid June Was offered to her heart. ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1870
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

“ LIKE A BAD DRAMA ! n

... during thrice 24 hours of hearing evsry shot in the whole 30 miles circumference of Paris, and one night I counted 107 shots five minutes. The sky at night was illuminated as by fireworks, and bombs and grenades flew like rockets In all directions. Ou tbe ...

EMBLEM 8 OF LIFE

... bright a day! oh, brighter far, Bursts on the spiriVeye That glorious more, or not a star Is granted to his sky. But night—a long, unending night Of misery and tears, Gloom' on the erring spirit's sight Throughout eternal years ! Those sunset rays—they ...

THE QUEEN'S RECENT TRIP TO GERMANY

... Conservatives to bring forward as a candidate Sir Thomas Edward Moss, Bart. 1 THE AUSTRALIAN NIGHT-SET.—A Melbourne I correspondent writes :—The sky at night here is most wonderful. I think that Shakespeare must somehow have had a glimpse of it when he ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1872
Newspaper: Potteries Examiner
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ISANDULA dies the western sky of night all the hushed unbroken sleep the warriors lie Nor dream of hand rosy

... ISANDULA dies the western sky of night all the hushed unbroken sleep the warriors lie Nor dream of hand rosy li ht appears Yet of danger recks the silent of war the sentry hears hostile tramp for for lo from yonder Down sweep foe Like lions bi ought bay ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1879
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6519 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... fivat trordie . l.B.o , h' , .; Thu. norm away hy the attrition of life, and . if none be follows. as .rudely 101 sky follow., night, that ta lb. 10.1 k w ill quickly ri tutu ed 'a oisn grommet Bow , lion ti lcaitait and genial, lIMOI Oil treatment ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1879
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1336 | Page: 1 | Tags: none