The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse ...James Crissy, 1841 - 666 strani |
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... less splendid ; the little boys reserved their best crackers to be expended in his honour , and he gave them full sixpence more than any one else . He would like an illumination once a month ; for it must not be concealed that , in ...
... less splendid ; the little boys reserved their best crackers to be expended in his honour , and he gave them full sixpence more than any one else . He would like an illumination once a month ; for it must not be concealed that , in ...
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... less for that , and thought of her the more . He came again and again ; and at last contrived to tame this wild dove , and even to get the entrée of the cot- tage . Hearing Hannah talk , is not the way to fall out of love with her . So ...
... less for that , and thought of her the more . He came again and again ; and at last contrived to tame this wild dove , and even to get the entrée of the cot- tage . Hearing Hannah talk , is not the way to fall out of love with her . So ...
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... less lively spot , to that large heavy building on one side of the common , whose solid wings , jutting out far beyond the main body , occupy three sides of a square , and give a cold shadowy look to the court . On one side is a gloomy ...
... less lively spot , to that large heavy building on one side of the common , whose solid wings , jutting out far beyond the main body , occupy three sides of a square , and give a cold shadowy look to the court . On one side is a gloomy ...
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... less pure . Money is there , and hatred , and politics , and lies . Oh , to be a voter or a voter's wife , comes nothing near the genuine and hearty sympathy of belonging to a parish , breathing the same air , looking on the same trees ...
... less pure . Money is there , and hatred , and politics , and lies . Oh , to be a voter or a voter's wife , comes nothing near the genuine and hearty sympathy of belonging to a parish , breathing the same air , looking on the same trees ...
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... less agreeable to the other part of the company . Servants and masters were equally desirous to secure Tom . Besides his general and professional familiar- ity with beasts and birds , their ways and doings , a knowledge so minute and ...
... less agreeable to the other part of the company . Servants and masters were equally desirous to secure Tom . Besides his general and professional familiar- ity with beasts and birds , their ways and doings , a knowledge so minute and ...
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Aberleigh admiration amongst amusement beauty Belford bright bright eye called Charles North charming child Clewer colour Comus coppice cottage creature cricket daughter dear delicate delight door eyes fair Fanny farmer father favourite flowers French garden geese gentle geraniums gipsy girl godfather good-humour green greyhound habit half hand happy hath Hatherden head heard heart honour Jack Hatch John Hallett kind knew lady lane Lanton laugh Letty lived Lizzy Loddon river look Madame marriage married master Miss mistress morning neighbour neighbourhood ness never nosegay parish party passed Persian cat person play pleasant poor pretty racter rich Rose round Saladin Sally seemed side sister smile smock-frocks sort spirit Stephen Long sure sweet talk tall thing thought tion town trees turned village voice walk whilst whole wife window woman young youth
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Stran 40 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree...
Stran 255 - Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal — a new birth: Be still a symbol of immensity; A firmament reflected in a sea; An element filling the space between; An unknown — but no more : we humbly screen With uplift hands our foreheads, lowly bending, And giving out a shout most heaven-rending, Conjure thee...
Stran 90 - Or through our hamlets thou wilt bear The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled ; And Shakspeare at his side — a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world...
Stran 153 - Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the fieldmouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm. And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men.
Stran 45 - But they were beaten sulky, and would not move — to my great disappointment ; I wanted to prolong the pleasure of success. What a glorious sensation it is to be for five hours together winning — winning — winning ! always feeling what a whist-player feels when he takes up four honours, seven trumps ! Who would think that a little bit of leather, and two pieces of wood, had such a delightful and delighting power ? The...
Stran 82 - A better preest I trowe that nowher non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.
Stran 40 - Some time thus spent, the young man grew at last Into a pretty anger ; that a bird, Whom art had never taught cliffs, moods, or notes, Should vie with him for mastery, whose study Had busied many hours to perfect practice : To end the controversy, in a rapture Upon his instrument he plays so swiftly, So many voluntaries, and so quick, That there was curiosity and cunning, Concord in discord, lines of differing...
Stran 40 - To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came ; and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks.
Stran 29 - ... about children, to jump over stiles, to scramble through hedges, to climb trees; and some of her knowledge of plants and birds may certainly have arisen from her delight in these boyish amusements. And which of us has not found that the strongest, the healthiest, and most flourishing acquirement has arisen from pleasure or accident, has been in a manner selfsown, like an oak of the forest? — Oh, she was a sad romp; as skittish as a wild colt, as uncertain as a butterfly, as uncatchable as a...
Stran 254 - Or upward ragged precipices flit To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw; Or by mysterious enticement draw...