The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1863 - 444 Seiten |
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... mean to say that it will be absolutely good , though it will be as good as I can make it ; but it will be better for the races with my little girl , and for the thoughts about my horse , than it would have been if I had not been ...
... mean to say that it will be absolutely good , though it will be as good as I can make it ; but it will be better for the races with my little girl , and for the thoughts about my horse , than it would have been if I had not been ...
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... country parson , like poor Sydney Smith , adding his accounts , calculating his little means , wondering where he can pinch or pare any closer , till the poor fellow bends down his stupified head and throbbing temples on 16 CONCERNING THE.
... country parson , like poor Sydney Smith , adding his accounts , calculating his little means , wondering where he can pinch or pare any closer , till the poor fellow bends down his stupified head and throbbing temples on 16 CONCERNING THE.
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... mean to say you would not drive over to the town and take the hundred pounds out of the bank ? ' The priest was staggered . He had never looked at the thing in that precise light . He had never had the vague distant question of ...
... mean to say you would not drive over to the town and take the hundred pounds out of the bank ? ' The priest was staggered . He had never looked at the thing in that precise light . He had never had the vague distant question of ...
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... mean to see , not to speak of ) some fault on their part , owes a deep debt of gratitude to the man , whoever he was , who thus kindly and wisely gave us a forbearing stand - point from which to regard a ser vant's failings , by putting ...
... mean to see , not to speak of ) some fault on their part , owes a deep debt of gratitude to the man , whoever he was , who thus kindly and wisely gave us a forbearing stand - point from which to regard a ser vant's failings , by putting ...
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... means so , that truth may always be depended on to tell its own story and produce its due impression . Not a bit of it . However good my case might be , I should be sorry to intrust it to Mr. Num- skull , with Sir Fitzroy Kelly on the ...
... means so , that truth may always be depended on to tell its own story and produce its due impression . Not a bit of it . However good my case might be , I should be sorry to intrust it to Mr. Num- skull , with Sir Fitzroy Kelly on the ...
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Seite 172 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 292 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Seite 108 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Seite 117 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Seite 130 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Seite 11 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Seite 224 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Seite 185 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Seite 327 - O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest — Ps.
Seite 120 - And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.