The Rural Life of England, Том 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 страници |
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... standing in the gate to tell them they are no longer wanted . All this we know ; yet which of us is not ready to forgive all this , and to say with a full heart , " England , with all thy faults , I love thee still ! ” Which of us is ...
... standing in the gate to tell them they are no longer wanted . All this we know ; yet which of us is not ready to forgive all this , and to say with a full heart , " England , with all thy faults , I love thee still ! ” Which of us is ...
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... remonious hour , and servants are generally dispensed with . This is to me , I confess , an advantage it has over every other meal . I detest eating with twenty tall fellows standing opposite , whose business it is to IN THE COUNTRY . 35.
... remonious hour , and servants are generally dispensed with . This is to me , I confess , an advantage it has over every other meal . I detest eating with twenty tall fellows standing opposite , whose business it is to IN THE COUNTRY . 35.
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William Howitt. tall fellows standing opposite , whose business it is to watch me . The coffee and tea were on the table , with toast , muffins , oat - cakes , marmalade , jellies , fish , and all the paraphernalia of a Scotch breakfast ...
William Howitt. tall fellows standing opposite , whose business it is to watch me . The coffee and tea were on the table , with toast , muffins , oat - cakes , marmalade , jellies , fish , and all the paraphernalia of a Scotch breakfast ...
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... standing charge against it , we here have only to deal with it as a feature of rural life ; and though one cannot say much in praise of its humanity , it cannot be denied that it is a pursuit of a vigorous and exciting character . A ...
... standing charge against it , we here have only to deal with it as a feature of rural life ; and though one cannot say much in praise of its humanity , it cannot be denied that it is a pursuit of a vigorous and exciting character . A ...
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William Howitt. tive pleasure to him when , passing along the furrow of the standing corn , his old pointer , or favourite spaniel starts the young birds just able to take the wing , and he counts them over with a silent exulta- tion ...
William Howitt. tive pleasure to him when , passing along the furrow of the standing corn , his old pointer , or favourite spaniel starts the young birds just able to take the wing , and he counts them over with a silent exulta- tion ...
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Страница 265 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith. All things, responsive to the writing, there Breathed immortality, revolving life, And greatness still revolving; infinite: There littleness was not...
Страница 376 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Страница 70 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Страница 358 - I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Страница 358 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.
Страница 330 - HERE I am at Houghton! and alone! in this spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been in sixteen years! Think, what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray, and forty church-yards, could not furnish so many; nay, I know one must feel them with greater indifference than I possess, to have patience to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time: every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into...
Страница v - All bonds of natural love, and find them all Within the limits of thy rocky shores. 0 native Britain! O my Mother Isle! How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and seas, Have drunk in all my intellectual life...
Страница 12 - The ships of war that prowled like guardian giants along the coast ; the headlands of Ireland, stretching out into the channel ; the Welsh mountains, towering into the clouds ; all were objects of intense interest. As we sailed up the Mersey, I reconnoitered the shores with a telescope.
Страница 381 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
Страница 374 - Had wandered from its dwelling, and her eyes, — They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth : she was become The queen of a fantastic realm ; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things ; And forms — impalpable and unperccived Of others' sight — familiar were to hers, And this the world calls frenzy...