The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 páginas |
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... always be looking back and thinking I might have done better . So , on the whole , I would pre- fer that my reader should himself buy the estate , and bequeath it to me : and then I could soon PAGE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARSON'S CHOICE.
... always be looking back and thinking I might have done better . So , on the whole , I would pre- fer that my reader should himself buy the estate , and bequeath it to me : and then I could soon PAGE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARSON'S CHOICE.
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... reader , than your- self . It is in every man who sets himself to it to attain the self - same characteristics . It is quite true I have these now but , a few years since , never was mortal less like them . No cockney set down near ...
... reader , than your- self . It is in every man who sets himself to it to attain the self - same characteristics . It is quite true I have these now but , a few years since , never was mortal less like them . No cockney set down near ...
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... readers of his essays , you will gradually and easily see that . It is a great thing to write leisurely , and with a gen- eral feeling of kindliness and satisfaction with every- body ; but there is a further reason why one should set to ...
... readers of his essays , you will gradually and easily see that . It is a great thing to write leisurely , and with a gen- eral feeling of kindliness and satisfaction with every- body ; but there is a further reason why one should set to ...
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... reader , what a loss it was to you , that the writer did not at once sit down and sketch out his essays , Concerning Things Slowly Learnt ; and Concerning Growing Old ! And two other subjects of even greater value were , Concern- ing ...
... reader , what a loss it was to you , that the writer did not at once sit down and sketch out his essays , Concerning Things Slowly Learnt ; and Concerning Growing Old ! And two other subjects of even greater value were , Concern- ing ...
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... reader would always have seen it ? Or has it faded into falsehood , as well as into distance and dim- ness ? When I look back , and see my thoughts as trash , is it because they are trash and no better ? When I look back , and see Ailsa ...
... reader would always have seen it ? Or has it faded into falsehood , as well as into distance and dim- ness ? When I look back , and see my thoughts as trash , is it because they are trash and no better ? When I look back , and see Ailsa ...
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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.