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... appear , early cabbages and other vegetables , and in one night are all eaten up bare . Poor Burrows told me his seed last year cost him altogether a pound , and he had nothing left worth gathering , for the hares had eaten up all ...
... appear , early cabbages and other vegetables , and in one night are all eaten up bare . Poor Burrows told me his seed last year cost him altogether a pound , and he had nothing left worth gathering , for the hares had eaten up all ...
Page 8
... the question , as the peasant is too poor to employ a counsel , or even find bail for his appear- ance in another court . Had I known what I do now of poor Burrows's affair , I would have seen him through 8 THE POACHER .
... the question , as the peasant is too poor to employ a counsel , or even find bail for his appear- ance in another court . Had I known what I do now of poor Burrows's affair , I would have seen him through 8 THE POACHER .
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... appear- ance ; as his eye alighted upon the figure of Burrows , who , still undressed , slept senseless on the coverlet of the oppo- site bed , for there was little more than space for a chair between the two , he exclaimed , " See ! he ...
... appear- ance ; as his eye alighted upon the figure of Burrows , who , still undressed , slept senseless on the coverlet of the oppo- site bed , for there was little more than space for a chair between the two , he exclaimed , " See ! he ...
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... appear before a just God , from whom no secrets are hidden , so would I , in this my last hour , do justice to all I leave behind , and who must ere long follow me . But , above all , would I have justice done to him whom I have so ...
... appear before a just God , from whom no secrets are hidden , so would I , in this my last hour , do justice to all I leave behind , and who must ere long follow me . But , above all , would I have justice done to him whom I have so ...
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... appear as cherished motives , all tending towards a future revenge . Even the evidence which both the clergymen and the doctor gave was turned by the opposing counsel against the prisoner and made to give a deeper colouring to the crime ...
... appear as cherished motives , all tending towards a future revenge . Even the evidence which both the clergymen and the doctor gave was turned by the opposing counsel against the prisoner and made to give a deeper colouring to the crime ...
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Page 312 - ... great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 292 - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.
Page 141 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade...
Page 132 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Page 303 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Page 285 - The rising vapors catch the silver light ; Thence fancy measures, as they parting fly, Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.
Page 225 - WITH Face and Fashion to be known, For one of sure Election, With Eyes all white, and many a Groan, With Neck aside to draw in Tone, With Harp in 's Nose, or he is none.
Page 57 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 269 - Till dirt adhesive loads his clouted shoes. Welcome, green headland ! firm beneath his feet ; Welcome, the friendly bank's refreshing seat ; There, warm with toil, his panting horses browse Their...
Page 96 - The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide; The hum of bees; the linnet's lay of love; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.