The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 páginas |
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... Midhurst * read his essay on the Miseries of Human Life , he had all the ad- vantage of a gloomy , overcast day . And so the aspect of the external world was to the essay like the accom- paniment in music to a song . The accompaniment ...
... Midhurst * read his essay on the Miseries of Human Life , he had all the ad- vantage of a gloomy , overcast day . And so the aspect of the external world was to the essay like the accom- paniment in music to a song . The accompaniment ...
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... Midhurst , whose days have been spent in diplomacy , who is of a melancholy disposition , and takes gloomy views of life , but who is much skilled in cookery , very fat , and very fond of a good dinner . Also Mildred and Blanche ...
... Midhurst , whose days have been spent in diplomacy , who is of a melancholy disposition , and takes gloomy views of life , but who is much skilled in cookery , very fat , and very fond of a good dinner . Also Mildred and Blanche ...
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... Midhurst and the girls ac- company them : and the story is simply that at various places to which they came , one friend read an essay or uttered a discourse ( for sometimes the essays are supposed to have been given extempore ) , and ...
... Midhurst and the girls ac- company them : and the story is simply that at various places to which they came , one friend read an essay or uttered a discourse ( for sometimes the essays are supposed to have been given extempore ) , and ...
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... Midhurst are smoking , and we commend their conversation on the soothing power of tobacco to the attention of the Dean of Carlisle . Dean Close , by a bold figure , calls tobacco a ' gorging fiend . ' Milverton holds that smoking is per ...
... Midhurst are smoking , and we commend their conversation on the soothing power of tobacco to the attention of the Dean of Carlisle . Dean Close , by a bold figure , calls tobacco a ' gorging fiend . ' Milverton holds that smoking is per ...
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... MIDHURST . A conceited prig , too ! DUNSFORD . A wicked , designing villain ! ELLESMERE . Any more : any more ? Pray go on , gentlemen ; and have you , ladies , nothing to say against the wise man of the world that I have depicted ? And ...
... MIDHURST . A conceited prig , too ! DUNSFORD . A wicked , designing villain ! ELLESMERE . Any more : any more ? Pray go on , gentlemen ; and have you , ladies , nothing to say against the wise man of the world that I have depicted ? And ...
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Página 224 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Página 126 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 222 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 332 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too /far.
Página 150 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Página 120 - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 151 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Página 119 - P. Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there...
Página 118 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 103 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.