Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery. 4. SeriesE. Bliss, 1830 |
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Zadetki 1–5 od 56
Stran 15
... side of us , and the Kennet and Thames on the other , having embraced so fair an opportu- nity of playing their usual pranks and overflowed the country round , as if governed by the malicious water sprite , ( I forget the gentleman's ...
... side of us , and the Kennet and Thames on the other , having embraced so fair an opportu- nity of playing their usual pranks and overflowed the country round , as if governed by the malicious water sprite , ( I forget the gentleman's ...
Stran 16
... sides , according to the bold practice of now - a - days ; and the hill on which the house stands pared off to let in the water , by a body of exca- vators ( navigators our villagers by an ingenious slip - slopism were pleased to call ...
... sides , according to the bold practice of now - a - days ; and the hill on which the house stands pared off to let in the water , by a body of exca- vators ( navigators our villagers by an ingenious slip - slopism were pleased to call ...
Stran 17
... side and of jealousy on the part of the gentleman . Some day or other I suppose they will marry ; but really they are such a handsome couple and their little quarrels are so amusing , that it will be quite a pity to put an end to the ...
... side and of jealousy on the part of the gentleman . Some day or other I suppose they will marry ; but really they are such a handsome couple and their little quarrels are so amusing , that it will be quite a pity to put an end to the ...
Stran 31
... side on a little hillock of turf , and saw her recreant lover standing amongst a group of cricketers very near , and evidently gazing on her - just as he used to gaze three years before . Perhaps Letty had never looked so pretty in her ...
... side on a little hillock of turf , and saw her recreant lover standing amongst a group of cricketers very near , and evidently gazing on her - just as he used to gaze three years before . Perhaps Letty had never looked so pretty in her ...
Stran 32
... side . And then , as losers will , they began to exclaim against the system , called it a toss , a throw , a trick ; any thing but bowling , any thing but cricket ; railed at it as destroying the grace of the attitude , and the balance ...
... side . And then , as losers will , they began to exclaim against the system , called it a toss , a throw , a trick ; any thing but bowling , any thing but cricket ; railed at it as destroying the grace of the attitude , and the balance ...
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
Aberleigh Alderney amongst Andrew Shore Anne aunt beautiful Berkshire birds blue boat bright called Charles Foster Clewer cobbler colour comfort cottage cousin cricket Dame damsel Danby Dash daughter dear delight Dennis O'Brien doll Elvington eyes fair fancy Fanny farm farmer father favourite Flossy flowers garden gentleman George ghost green greenhouse half Ham House hand Hannah happy Harry Hatherden Hazelby heard heart Hetta honour Humph lady Lanton laugh Laura Letty little girl lived look magpie Major Barton married Martha Master Matthew Miss mistress morning neighbours never Newfoundland dog parish party Paul Holton person pink plants play Pompey poor Prescott pretty Rose Rosedale round Sandleford seemed Shaw common side sister smile sort spirit standing sweet talk tall thing thought tion town trees village walk whilst whole wife woman wonder young
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Stran 97 - 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 270 - He has a framed walk of timber covered with vines, which with others, running on most of his walls without prejudice to his lower trees, yield him a deal of wine.
Stran 208 - How beautiful the lane is to-day, decorated with a thousand colours ! The brown road, and the rich verdure that borders it, strewed with the pale yellow leaves of the elm, just beginning to fall; hedgerows glowing with long wreaths of the bramble in every variety of purplish red; and overhead the unchanged green of the fir...
Stran 86 - Creeping like beaded coral; whilst around Flourish the copse's pride, anemones, With rays like golden studs on ivory laid Most delicate ; but touched with purple clouds, Fit crown for April's fair but changeful brow.
Stran 184 - Patty a night's misery, to be compensated by a lifetime of happiness. Jane was almost as glad to lose a lover as her sister was to regain one. Charles is gone home to his father's to make preparations for his bride; Archibald has taken a great nursery garden, and there is some talk in Aberleigh that the marriage of the two sisters is to be celebrated on the same day.
Stran 269 - Dr. Uvedale, of Enfield, is a great lover of plants, and having an extraordinary art in managing them, is become master of the greatest and choicest collection of exotic greens that is perhaps, any where in this land. His greens take up six or seven houses or roomsteads. His...
Stran 178 - Nearly of an age, (I believe that at this moment both are turned of nineteen, and neither has reached twenty.) exactly of a stature, (so high that Frederick would have coveted them for wives for his tall regiment,) with hazel eyes, large mouths, full lips, white teeth, brown hair, clear, healthy complexions, and that sort of nose which is neither Grecian, nor Roman, nor aquiline, nor le petit...
Stran 270 - ... rudely, and sometimes the coneys work under the wall into the garden. 22. Mr. Richardson at East Barnet has a pretty garden, with fine walks and good flowers ; but the garden not being walled about they have less summer fruit, yet are, therefore, the more industrious in managing the peach and apricot dwarf standards, which, they say, supply them plentifully with very good fruit. There is a...
Stran 177 - Whether from skill or from good fortune, or, as is most probable, from a lucky mixture of both, every thing goes right in his great farm. His crops are the best in the parish ; his hay is never spoiled ; his cattle never die ; his servants never thieve ; his children are never ill. He buys cheap, and sells dear ; money gathers about him like a snow-ball ; and yet, in spite of all this provoking and intolerable prosperity, every body loves Farmer Evans.
Stran 251 - Bristol to the head quarters of the British General. It was determined, therefore, to make Warwick Neck, a place opposite to the British encampment, but at a greater distance than Bristol, the point from which they should depart immediately for Rhode-Island. The most inviolable secrecy was enjoined upon his officers by Major Barton, and they returned to Bristol.