English country gentlemenCarey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1835 |
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... story of his having been crossed in love . The reader will , very probably , suppose that it related to the gay widow who jilted him not long since at Doncaster races ; -no such thing . It was about a sentimental passion that he once ...
... story of his having been crossed in love . The reader will , very probably , suppose that it related to the gay widow who jilted him not long since at Doncaster races ; -no such thing . It was about a sentimental passion that he once ...
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... stories ; and I recollect that he was particularly facetious that day at dinner , on the subject of matrimony , and uttered several excellent jokes , not to be found in Joe Miller , that made the bride elect blush and look down ; but ...
... stories ; and I recollect that he was particularly facetious that day at dinner , on the subject of matrimony , and uttered several excellent jokes , not to be found in Joe Miller , that made the bride elect blush and look down ; but ...
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... story . A prosperous life , passed at home , has little incident for narrative ; it is only poor devils , that are tossed about the world , that are the true heroes of story . Jack had stuck by the paternal farm , followed the same plow ...
... story . A prosperous life , passed at home , has little incident for narrative ; it is only poor devils , that are tossed about the world , that are the true heroes of story . Jack had stuck by the paternal farm , followed the same plow ...
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... story , it is but right I should give one of mine . It was written by the parson of the parish where I reside . He is a thin , elderly man , of a delicate constitution , but positively one of the most charming men that ever lived . He ...
... story , it is but right I should give one of mine . It was written by the parson of the parish where I reside . He is a thin , elderly man , of a delicate constitution , but positively one of the most charming men that ever lived . He ...
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... story of her heart , they might have traced in it some fond re- membrance of her early playmate , not so deeply graven as to be painful , but too deep to be easily obliterated ; and they might have noticed , amidst all her gaiety , the ...
... story of her heart , they might have traced in it some fond re- membrance of her early playmate , not so deeply graven as to be painful , but too deep to be easily obliterated ; and they might have noticed , amidst all her gaiety , the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Annette Antony Vander Heyden beautiful bosom brought chapel cheer crew dance delight doctor Dolph Heyliger door dream Dutch endeavoured English Eugene fancy father favour fearful feelings fond friends gazed gipsy girl goblin green Hall hand haunted house head heard heart Heer Antony hobgoblin Honfleur honour household housekeeper humours kind Lady Lillycraft listened looked lover Lower Normandy mansion Master Simon May-day May-pole mind morning mother mountain neighbourhood neighbouring never night old Christy passed Pays d'Auge peasantry Peter de Groodt Phoebe Wilkins Pont l'Eveque poor porringer Ready-Money Jack recollection river Robin Goodfellow ROGER ASCHAM rookery rooks round sail scene seemed seen ship sight Slingsby sloop smile sometimes spirit Squire Squire's stood story strange tale talk thing thought Tibbets tion took town trees turned village voyage wedding whole window worthy young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 120 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 57 - The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes, Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
Página 81 - The sodger from the wars returns, The sailor frae the main ; But I hae parted frae my love, Never to meet again, My dear ; Never to meet again. W'hen day is gane, and night is come, And a...
Página 14 - SONG. Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her...
Página 212 - They declare that they have heard him, in stormy weather, in the midst of the turmoil, giving orders in low Dutch for the piping up of a fresh gust of wind, or the rattling off of another thunder-clap.
Página 125 - Pastorals," gives a picture of the kind of scenery to which I allude :— "A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows makes such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned been. Within one of these rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy queen At twilight sat.
Página 145 - Barbara. She was in love; and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her. She had a song of 'willow' — An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it.
Página 35 - The May-pole on the margin of that poetic stream completed the illusion. My fancy adorned it with wreaths of flowers, and peopled the green bank with all the dancing revelry of Mayday. The mere sight of this May-pole gave a glow to my feelings, and spread a charm over the country for the rest of the day; and as I traversed a part of the fair plain of Cheshire, and the beautiful borders of Wales, and looked from among swelling hills, down a long green valley, through which "the Deva wound its wizard...
Página 32 - Happy the age, and harmless were the dayes, (For then true love and amity was found,) When every village did a May-pole raise, And Whitsun ales and May-games did abound: And all the lusty yonkers in a rout, With merry lasses daunc'd the rod about, Then friendship to their banquets bid the guests, And poore men far'd the better for their feasts.
Página 191 - Nose, with a solitary eagle wheeling about it; while beyond, mountain succeeded to mountain, until they seemed to lock their arms together, and confine this mighty river in their embraces. There was a feeling of quiet luxury in gazing at the broad, green bosoms, here and there scooped out among the precipices, or at woodlands high in air, nodding over the edge of some beetling bluff, and their foliage all transparent in the yellow sunshine.