The Recreations of a Country Parson. Second SeriesTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 442 Seiten |
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... believe that most authors could tell us that very frequently the con- ception and the treatment of their subject have darted on them all at once , they could not tell how . Many clergy- men know how strangely texts and topics of ...
... believe that most authors could tell us that very frequently the con- ception and the treatment of their subject have darted on them all at once , they could not tell how . Many clergy- men know how strangely texts and topics of ...
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... believe that any great reformer will find less practical discouragement in the opposition of bad people than in the inertia of good people . You cannot get them to feel that the need and the danger are so imminent and urgent ; you ...
... believe that any great reformer will find less practical discouragement in the opposition of bad people than in the inertia of good people . You cannot get them to feel that the need and the danger are so imminent and urgent ; you ...
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... believe that there is no real malice in the way in which most people cut up their friends behind their backs . You really have a very kindly feeling towards Mr. A. or Mrs. B. , though you do turn them into ridicule in their absence ...
... believe that there is no real malice in the way in which most people cut up their friends behind their backs . You really have a very kindly feeling towards Mr. A. or Mrs. B. , though you do turn them into ridicule in their absence ...
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... believe , among people with any claim to respectability ; but it is perfectly awful to think how great a part of ordinary conversation , especially in little country towns , consists in putting things quite differently from the actual ...
... believe , among people with any claim to respectability ; but it is perfectly awful to think how great a part of ordinary conversation , especially in little country towns , consists in putting things quite differently from the actual ...
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... believe that they live in such a world and among such beings as they put ! Their gushing heart is too much for even their sharp head , and they see all things glorified by the sunshine of their own exceeding amiability . The subject ...
... believe that they live in such a world and among such beings as they put ! Their gushing heart is too much for even their sharp head , and they see all things glorified by the sunshine of their own exceeding amiability . The subject ...
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Seite 174 - 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 110 - 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 128 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful, wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love.
Seite 226 - 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 412 - 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 187 - 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 295 - 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 329 - O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest — Ps.
Seite 122 - 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 305 - 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.