The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 442 Seiten |
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... taste of her castor - oil , yea , even to the dentist who with a joke and a smiling face approaches you with his forceps in his hand : - from the great Attorney - General seeking to place his view of his case with convincing force ...
... taste of her castor - oil , yea , even to the dentist who with a joke and a smiling face approaches you with his forceps in his hand : - from the great Attorney - General seeking to place his view of his case with convincing force ...
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... taste , in conduct , it is possible for them to deviate by a hair's - breadth from the right line of perfection . Indeed , I believe that no immorality , no criminality , would excite such wrath in some men , as to tread upon a corner ...
... taste , in conduct , it is possible for them to deviate by a hair's - breadth from the right line of perfection . Indeed , I believe that no immorality , no criminality , would excite such wrath in some men , as to tread upon a corner ...
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... taste and not a diseased one , I will give up that phrase , and substitute for it the less strong one that a liking for work is an acquired taste , like that which leads you and me , my friend , to like bitter beer . Such a man , for ...
... taste and not a diseased one , I will give up that phrase , and substitute for it the less strong one that a liking for work is an acquired taste , like that which leads you and me , my friend , to like bitter beer . Such a man , for ...
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... taste and habit cannot be easily amused ; but remember that such is the lot of a very large propor- tion of the intellectual labourers of the race . And what is such a man to do ? After using his eyes and exerting his brain all the ...
... taste and habit cannot be easily amused ; but remember that such is the lot of a very large propor- tion of the intellectual labourers of the race . And what is such a man to do ? After using his eyes and exerting his brain all the ...
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... taste for ? And if it be foolish to take all the year's play at once , as so many intellectual workers think to do , much more foolish is it to keep all the play of life till the work is over : to toil and moil at business through all ...
... taste for ? And if it be foolish to take all the year's play at once , as so many intellectual workers think to do , much more foolish is it to keep all the play of life till the work is over : to toil and moil at business through all ...
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Seite 164 - 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 100 - 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 109 - 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 216 - 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 402 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Seite 122 - 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 319 - O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest — Ps.
Seite 112 - 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.
Seite 432 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Seite 295 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.