The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 páginas |
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... carry a heavy portmanteau a mile is work . Not every one remembers that the owner of the port- manteau , as he walks on carrying nothing weightier than an umbrella , may be going through exertion much harder 10 THE PARSON'S CHOICE.
... carry a heavy portmanteau a mile is work . Not every one remembers that the owner of the port- manteau , as he walks on carrying nothing weightier than an umbrella , may be going through exertion much harder 10 THE PARSON'S CHOICE.
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... miles of sea upon Staffa ? You do not see the basaltic columns now ; but that is because you see wrongly . You do not burn at the remembrance of the wicked lie , the crafty misrepresentation , the cruel blow ; but perhaps you ought to ...
... miles of sea upon Staffa ? You do not see the basaltic columns now ; but that is because you see wrongly . You do not burn at the remembrance of the wicked lie , the crafty misrepresentation , the cruel blow ; but perhaps you ought to ...
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... miles off ; but this evening as you passed the shop you discovered her , a plump matron , calling to her children in a voice rather shrill than sweet ; and you discovered from the altered sign above the door that her father is dead ...
... miles off ; but this evening as you passed the shop you discovered her , a plump matron , calling to her children in a voice rather shrill than sweet ; and you discovered from the altered sign above the door that her father is dead ...
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... miles this morning . ' As for all such manifestations of the disposition to run into opposite ex- tremes , let them be treated as manifestations of petted- ness , perversity , and dishonesty . In some cases a high- spirited youth may be ...
... miles this morning . ' As for all such manifestations of the disposition to run into opposite ex- tremes , let them be treated as manifestations of petted- ness , perversity , and dishonesty . In some cases a high- spirited youth may be ...
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... miles ahead of all competitors , the simple explanation in ninety - nine cases out of a hundred is this - that the honest individual who holds these overstrained opinions knows a great deal better than he knows any others , that author ...
... miles ahead of all competitors , the simple explanation in ninety - nine cases out of a hundred is this - that the honest individual who holds these overstrained opinions knows a great deal better than he knows any others , that author ...
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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.