Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volym 1Geo. B. Whitaker, 1824 |
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... one lives in a delicious green light , and looks out on the gayest of all gay flower - beds . That house was built on purpose to show in what an exceedingly small compass 8 comfort may be packed . Well , I will loiter OUR VILLAGE . 7.
... one lives in a delicious green light , and looks out on the gayest of all gay flower - beds . That house was built on purpose to show in what an exceedingly small compass 8 comfort may be packed . Well , I will loiter OUR VILLAGE . 7.
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... green door with the brass knocker , and the somewhat prim but very civil person , who is sending off a labouring man with sirs and curtsies enough for a prince of the blood . Those are the curate's lodgings - apartments his land- lady ...
... green door with the brass knocker , and the somewhat prim but very civil person , who is sending off a labouring man with sirs and curtsies enough for a prince of the blood . Those are the curate's lodgings - apartments his land- lady ...
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... green borders and hedge - rows so thickly tim- bered ! How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy excavated bank , and touches the farm - house on the top of the eminence ! and how clearly defined and relieved is the figure of the ...
... green borders and hedge - rows so thickly tim- bered ! How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy excavated bank , and touches the farm - house on the top of the eminence ! and how clearly defined and relieved is the figure of the ...
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... green , the tips of whose high outer branches drop down with such a crisp and garland - like richness , and the oak , whose stately form is just now so splendidly adorned by the sunny colouring of the young leaves . Turning again up the ...
... green , the tips of whose high outer branches drop down with such a crisp and garland - like richness , and the oak , whose stately form is just now so splendidly adorned by the sunny colouring of the young leaves . Turning again up the ...
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... introduction - an essay to themselves - and they shall have it . No fear of forgetting the good - humoured faces that meet us in our walks every day . HANNA H. THE prettiest cottage on our village - green 16 OUR VILLAGE .
... introduction - an essay to themselves - and they shall have it . No fear of forgetting the good - humoured faces that meet us in our walks every day . HANNA H. THE prettiest cottage on our village - green 16 OUR VILLAGE .
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admiration amongst beautiful biped bird blue Bramley bright brown called Charlotte charm colour common coppice cottage cribbage cricket cuckoo dark David Willis dear delicate delightful door Ellen Ellen Page eyes fair farm-house favourite feeling flowers garden gentle gentlemen girl good-humoured gown grace green green tea habit half Hannah happy hath heart hedgerows hill James Brown Joel John Evans John Strong lads lady lane laughing lived Lizzy look lover Lucy marriage married master meadows ment miles Miss mistress Mossy neighbour ness never oaks parish party Persian cat person pleasant pleasure poor pretty quadrilles ribands rich road roses round scolding seemed side Silchester Silent Woman sister smile smock-frock sort spirit sure sweet talk tall thing thought trees turn village voice walk whilst wife wild William Grey woman workhouse young
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Sida 264 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Sida 136 - And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Sida 141 - Alas, poor creature ! I will soon revenge This cruelty upon the author of it ; Henceforth this lute, guilty of innocent blood, Shall never more betray a harmless peace To an untimely end :" and in that sorrow, As he was pashing* it against a tree, I suddenly stept in.
Sida 140 - The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to...
Sida 139 - To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks.
Sida 93 - She had no French either, not a word ; no Italian ; but then her English was racy, unhackneyed, proper to the thought to a degree that only original thinking could give. She had not much reading, except of the Bible and Shakspeare, and Richardson's novels, in which she was learned ; but then her powers of observation were sharpened and quickened, in a very unusual degree, by the leisure and opportunity afforded for their devclopement, at a time of life when they are most acute.
Sida 1 - OP all situations for a constant residence, that which appears to me most delightful is a little village far in the country ; a small neighbourhood, not of fine mansions finely peopled, but of cottages and cottage-like houses,
Sida 158 - Simmons's fast balls posed them completely. Poor simpletons ! they were always wrong, expecting the slow for the quick, and the quick for the slow. Well, we went in. And what were our innings ? Guess again ! — guess ! A hundred and sixty-nine ! in spite of soaking showers, and wretched ground, where the ball would not run a yard, we headed them by a hundred and forty-seven ; and then they gave in, as well they might. William Grey pressed them much to try another innings. " There was so much chance,"...
Sida 140 - ... perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing method Meeting in one full centre of delight.