Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volume 1Geo. B. Whitaker, 1824 - Country life |
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... feels an interest in us . How pleasant it is to slide into these fine - hearted feelings from the kindly and unconscious influence of habit , and to learn to know and to love the people about us , with all their peculiarities , just as ...
... feels an interest in us . How pleasant it is to slide into these fine - hearted feelings from the kindly and unconscious influence of habit , and to learn to know and to love the people about us , with all their peculiarities , just as ...
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... feeling . I know nobody who inspires so deep and tender a pity ; he improves all around him . He is useful , too , to the extent of his little power ; will do any thing , but loves gardening best , and still piques himself on his old ...
... feeling . I know nobody who inspires so deep and tender a pity ; he improves all around him . He is useful , too , to the extent of his little power ; will do any thing , but loves gardening best , and still piques himself on his old ...
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... feelings sitting gaily at his heart , it must still gratify the pride of skill to have one spectator at that solitary pond who has seen skaiting before . Now we have reached the trees , -the beautiful trees ! never so beautiful as to ...
... feelings sitting gaily at his heart , it must still gratify the pride of skill to have one spectator at that solitary pond who has seen skaiting before . Now we have reached the trees , -the beautiful trees ! never so beautiful as to ...
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... feeling of simple power in that naked and colourless beauty , which falls on the heart like the thought of death- death pure , and glorious , and smiling , -but still death . Sculpture has always the same effect on my imagination , and ...
... feeling of simple power in that naked and colourless beauty , which falls on the heart like the thought of death- death pure , and glorious , and smiling , -but still death . Sculpture has always the same effect on my imagination , and ...
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... , and held her down by main force , the poor little lady would have been carried up like an air- balloon . Her feelings must have been pretty much si- milar to those of Gulliver in Brobdignag , when flown 38 MODERN ANTIQUES .
... , and held her down by main force , the poor little lady would have been carried up like an air- balloon . Her feelings must have been pretty much si- milar to those of Gulliver in Brobdignag , when flown 38 MODERN ANTIQUES .
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Page 264 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 136 - And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 141 - Alas, poor creature ! I will soon revenge This cruelty upon the author of it ; Henceforth this lute, guilty of innocent blood, Shall never more betray a harmless peace To an untimely end :" and in that sorrow, As he was pashing* it against a tree, I suddenly stept in.
Page 140 - The well-shaped youth could touch, she sung her own ; He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to...
Page 139 - 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.
Page 93 - She had no French either, not a word ; no Italian ; but then her English was racy, unhackneyed, proper to the thought to a degree that only original thinking could give. She had not much reading, except of the Bible and Shakspeare, and Richardson's novels, in which she was learned ; but then her powers of observation were sharpened and quickened, in a very unusual degree, by the leisure and opportunity afforded for their devclopement, at a time of life when they are most acute.
Page 1 - OP all situations for a constant residence, that which appears to me most delightful is a little village far in the country ; a small neighbourhood, not of fine mansions finely peopled, but of cottages and cottage-like houses,
Page 158 - Simmons's fast balls posed them completely. Poor simpletons ! they were always wrong, expecting the slow for the quick, and the quick for the slow. Well, we went in. And what were our innings ? Guess again ! — guess ! A hundred and sixty-nine ! in spite of soaking showers, and wretched ground, where the ball would not run a yard, we headed them by a hundred and forty-seven ; and then they gave in, as well they might. William Grey pressed them much to try another innings. " There was so much chance,"...
Page 140 - ... 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 method Meeting in one full centre of delight.