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... delightful locality , snug hollow or sunny slope - if not , “ a region mild of calm and serene air , " in every part of this fair land - during the delightful youth of spring , the splendid beauty of summer , or the rich maturity of ...
... delightful locality , snug hollow or sunny slope - if not , “ a region mild of calm and serene air , " in every part of this fair land - during the delightful youth of spring , the splendid beauty of summer , or the rich maturity of ...
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... delightful period is approaching— " What time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow comes ; " - The time when there seems to be a pause not only in the busy labours of the field , but in all the mysterious operations of ...
... delightful period is approaching— " What time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow comes ; " - The time when there seems to be a pause not only in the busy labours of the field , but in all the mysterious operations of ...
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... delightful Sunday morning scene ; - these , obeying the call of the Village Bells , give to the picture its peculiar animated touches - those striking characteristics which cause the heart to gush with the deepest feeling and the mind ...
... delightful Sunday morning scene ; - these , obeying the call of the Village Bells , give to the picture its peculiar animated touches - those striking characteristics which cause the heart to gush with the deepest feeling and the mind ...
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... delightful scenes with which rural life abounds , in whatever direction the attention of the close observer is turned , there are few fraught with greater beauty , with more enticing loveliness , and with more harmonious contrast , than ...
... delightful scenes with which rural life abounds , in whatever direction the attention of the close observer is turned , there are few fraught with greater beauty , with more enticing loveliness , and with more harmonious contrast , than ...
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... delightful period of the year , when the glory of summer is spread over the land , and all objects which meet the eye are attired in robes of varied hues -without the prevalence of any symptom of decay - hanging out a mass of blossoms ...
... delightful period of the year , when the glory of summer is spread over the land , and all objects which meet the eye are attired in robes of varied hues -without the prevalence of any symptom of decay - hanging out a mass of blossoms ...
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abounds amid ancient attired attractive Banker beams beauty behold beneath bird of night birds blessings bosom breath Bridle Road bright by-gone character charm Châteaubriand Chaucer cheerful clouds cottage countless course dark deep delightful distant drooping earth effeminacy enjoyment fair fair brow feeling Ferry flower foliage Footpaths gentle gloom gush hamlet hand harmonious heart heaven Hedger and Ditcher humble John Tomkins labours Lamennais land leaf localities matchless melody ment merry mind murmur mute night objects Old Ford Old Green Lanes onwards pass peaceful peculiar perfect pleasant Plutarch poor law unions possess quiet racter repose rill river rural scene seems sleep snug solemn song sorrow soul sound spirit splendour spot spread Stile stranger stream striking summer sweet thorn trees thou thought Thresher throw tion toil true truth uncon valley varied Village Bells voice waters weary winds wings wood woodland youth
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Page 146 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 149 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 182 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn. And broils root out the work of masonry.
Page 177 - I AM the rose of Sharon, And the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
Page 232 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 199 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 90 - Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No...
Page 33 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 149 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 244 - Time goes by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow ; She draws her favours to the lowest ebb ; Her tides have equal times to come and go; Her loom doth...