Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volym 1Geo. B. Whitaker, 1824 |
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... laughing face , sunburnt and rosy , large merry blue eyes , curl- ing brown hair , and a wonderful play of countenance . She has the imperial attitudes too , and loves to stand with her hands behind her , or folded over her bosom ; and ...
... laughing face , sunburnt and rosy , large merry blue eyes , curl- ing brown hair , and a wonderful play of countenance . She has the imperial attitudes too , and loves to stand with her hands behind her , or folded over her bosom ; and ...
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... laughing , clapping her hands , and glowing like a rose ; May- flower playing about her like summer lightning , dazzling the eyes with her sudden turns , her leaps , her bounds , her attacks and her escapes . She darts round the lovely ...
... laughing , clapping her hands , and glowing like a rose ; May- flower playing about her like summer lightning , dazzling the eyes with her sudden turns , her leaps , her bounds , her attacks and her escapes . She darts round the lovely ...
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... laughing through the casement , has seen her and disappeared . She is coming . No ! The key is turning in the door , and sounds of evil omen issue through the key - hole- sturdy ' let - me - outs , ' and ' I will - gos , ' mixed with ...
... laughing through the casement , has seen her and disappeared . She is coming . No ! The key is turning in the door , and sounds of evil omen issue through the key - hole- sturdy ' let - me - outs , ' and ' I will - gos , ' mixed with ...
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... laughing , May in her black eyes , Jack in his wide close - shut mouth , and his whole monkey - face , at their comrades ' mischances . I think , Miss May , you may as well come up again , and leave Master Rapley to fight your battles ...
... laughing , May in her black eyes , Jack in his wide close - shut mouth , and his whole monkey - face , at their comrades ' mischances . I think , Miss May , you may as well come up again , and leave Master Rapley to fight your battles ...
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... laughing light , which so often retains its flash to extreme age ; whilst Mrs. Theodosia's orbs , bright no longer , had once been hazel . Mrs. Theodosia's aquiline nose , and long so- ciable chin , evinced that disposition to meet ...
... laughing light , which so often retains its flash to extreme age ; whilst Mrs. Theodosia's orbs , bright no longer , had once been hazel . Mrs. Theodosia's aquiline nose , and long so- ciable chin , evinced that disposition to meet ...
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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.