The Old English Gentleman: Or, The Fields and the Woods, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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... rose from his easy position , and , pulling away a chequered curtain before the window , peered through the wet - streaked panes . The night was dark and gloomy ; the water streamed from the roof and pattered on the ground ; the rain ...
... rose from his easy position , and , pulling away a chequered curtain before the window , peered through the wet - streaked panes . The night was dark and gloomy ; the water streamed from the roof and pattered on the ground ; the rain ...
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... rose from his easy position , and , pulling away a chequered curtain before the window , peered through the wet - streaked panes . The night was dark and gloomy ; the water streamed from the roof and pattered on the ground ; the rain ...
... rose from his easy position , and , pulling away a chequered curtain before the window , peered through the wet - streaked panes . The night was dark and gloomy ; the water streamed from the roof and pattered on the ground ; the rain ...
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... rose at it . By St. Crispin , I never saw such a fall in my whole life . The horse struck the edge of the fence with his fore - legs , just below his knees , and over they pitched on the opposite side , head foremost . I pulled up , and ...
... rose at it . By St. Crispin , I never saw such a fall in my whole life . The horse struck the edge of the fence with his fore - legs , just below his knees , and over they pitched on the opposite side , head foremost . I pulled up , and ...
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... rose from his position before the fire and lighted his stable lamp . After peeping into the ale jug , which , to his surprise , had been emptied at intervals by his father , he buttoned up his warm coat , and , shaking the old man's ...
... rose from his position before the fire and lighted his stable lamp . After peeping into the ale jug , which , to his surprise , had been emptied at intervals by his father , he buttoned up his warm coat , and , shaking the old man's ...
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... rose slowly from the green turf , and hung upon the river in dense folds , as if reluctant to part with its more genial element . The old dark Elizabethan building was just tinged with the faint streaks of the rising sun , and the ivy ...
... rose slowly from the green turf , and hung upon the river in dense folds , as if reluctant to part with its more genial element . The old dark Elizabethan building was just tinged with the faint streaks of the rising sun , and the ivy ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 264 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
Página ix - He was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text and gloss over, Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore, He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their nature by abstracts. Hudibras.
Página ix - He understood b' implicit faith: Whatever Skeptic could inquire for; For every WHY he had a WHEREFORE : Knew more than forty of them do, As far as words and terms could go. All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion...
Página 9 - ... the coppices, I like to see a huntsman put only a few hounds over, enough to carry on the scent, and get forward with the rest, it is a proof that he knows his business. A huntsman must take care, where foxes are in plenty, lest he should run the heel; for it frequently happens, that hounds can run the wrong way of the scent better than they can the right, when one is up the wind, and the other down. Fox-hunters, I think, are never guilty of the fault of trying up the wind, before they have tried...
Página 32 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.