The Old Hall, Or, Our Hearth and Homestead, Volume 1T.C. Newby, 1845 |
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... nature , attend these recreations ; and so long as they continue to be springs and sources pro- ductive of good , so long may the gentlemen of England render them the distinguishing feature of their country . If , however , the writer ...
... nature , attend these recreations ; and so long as they continue to be springs and sources pro- ductive of good , so long may the gentlemen of England render them the distinguishing feature of their country . If , however , the writer ...
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... Nature's faultless chisel - he was especially well adapted . His head was quite bereft of hair , save a thin scanty ridge sprouting round the back part of it , not dissimilar in hue and texture to a stripe of gray rabbit's skin . His ...
... Nature's faultless chisel - he was especially well adapted . His head was quite bereft of hair , save a thin scanty ridge sprouting round the back part of it , not dissimilar in hue and texture to a stripe of gray rabbit's skin . His ...
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... natural size of that most useful organ , and the feature immediately surmounting it was the fun- niest little shapeless snub of a nose that ever was abused by snuff or any other villanous com- pound . Some said that his eyes were blue ...
... natural size of that most useful organ , and the feature immediately surmounting it was the fun- niest little shapeless snub of a nose that ever was abused by snuff or any other villanous com- pound . Some said that his eyes were blue ...
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... nature to good and praiseworthy purposes , then , indeed , she never was arrayed in more pleasing form than in this sleeping child . " Upon my word , " said John Hardy , stooping over the little unconscious slumberer , " it's a nice ...
... nature to good and praiseworthy purposes , then , indeed , she never was arrayed in more pleasing form than in this sleeping child . " Upon my word , " said John Hardy , stooping over the little unconscious slumberer , " it's a nice ...
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... natural shape , 66 you sha'n't be set aside . No , no , no . Who- ever you may be , and wherever you may be from , I'll take care of that ; " and never doubt John kept his word . CHAPTER III . " Promising is the very air o 76 THE OLD HALL .
... natural shape , 66 you sha'n't be set aside . No , no , no . Who- ever you may be , and wherever you may be from , I'll take care of that ; " and never doubt John kept his word . CHAPTER III . " Promising is the very air o 76 THE OLD HALL .
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Página 45 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 189 - Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Página 270 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 1 - It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 243 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who, A merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 3 - England, with all thy faults, I love thee still — My country ! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrain'd to love thee.
Página 179 - ... minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year...
Página 134 - I am not saying we ought to tell the veteran what he ought to do, or what he ought not to do...
Página 223 - ... faded, of scenes of former times ; yet that in which the Squire and John Hardy were ensconced, on the shortest day of the year, did not lack a comfortable...
Página 8 - ... the crumbling hand of time, and the ravages of tempests and the storms of ages. A dried fosse surrounded the building, on the banks of which many a garden flower grew, and tall elms now towered from the very bed ; convincing proof that it must have been a long time ago since it had been applied for the...