Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volym 1Geo. B. Whitaker, 1824 |
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... thoughts ; a low soft voice , sweet even in its monosyl- lables ; a dress remarkable for neatness and propriety , and borrowing from her delicate beauty an air of supe- riority not its own ; -such was the outward woman of Hannah . Her ...
... thoughts ; a low soft voice , sweet even in its monosyl- lables ; a dress remarkable for neatness and propriety , and borrowing from her delicate beauty an air of supe- riority not its own ; -such was the outward woman of Hannah . Her ...
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... thought of her the more . * He came again , and again ; and at last con- trived to tame this wild dove , and even to get the entrée of the cottage . Hearing Hannah talk , is not the way to fall out of love with her . So William , at ...
... thought of her the more . * He came again , and again ; and at last con- trived to tame this wild dove , and even to get the entrée of the cottage . Hearing Hannah talk , is not the way to fall out of love with her . So William , at ...
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... thought of death- death pure , and glorious , and smiling , -but still death . Sculpture has always the same effect on my imagination , and painting never . Colour is life .-- We are now at the end of this magnificent avenue , and at ...
... thought of death- death pure , and glorious , and smiling , -but still death . Sculpture has always the same effect on my imagination , and painting never . Colour is life .-- We are now at the end of this magnificent avenue , and at ...
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... thought her naughty ; and gave all my wishes to Harriet , though I thought her silly ; and loved Emily with my whole heart ! Clementina I did not quite understand ; nor ( I am half afraid to say so ) do I now ; and Sir Charles I ...
... thought her naughty ; and gave all my wishes to Harriet , though I thought her silly ; and loved Emily with my whole heart ! Clementina I did not quite understand ; nor ( I am half afraid to say so ) do I now ; and Sir Charles I ...
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... thoughts pressed on my mind the other day , in passing the green sheltered lane , overhung with trees like an avenue , that leads to the great farm at M. , where , ten or twelve years ago , I used to spend so many pleasant days . I ...
... thoughts pressed on my mind the other day , in passing the green sheltered lane , overhung with trees like an avenue , that leads to the great farm at M. , where , ten or twelve years ago , I used to spend so many pleasant days . I ...
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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.