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... THE OLD BRIDLE ROAD . . 227 2 THE OLD COMMONE . . 238 THE STRANGER STUDENT . . 247 THE BANKER , NAVIGATOR , OR EXCAVATOR . . 263 THE WOODMAN'S WIDOW . . 277 MEM AOKK ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE . INTRODUCTION . DR . CONTENTS .
... THE OLD BRIDLE ROAD . . 227 2 THE OLD COMMONE . . 238 THE STRANGER STUDENT . . 247 THE BANKER , NAVIGATOR , OR EXCAVATOR . . 263 THE WOODMAN'S WIDOW . . 277 MEM AOKK ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE . INTRODUCTION . DR . CONTENTS .
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... stranger in his own birthplace . And if , amid all , there be one ob- ject which still remains unchanged , and to which in its unchangeableness , he still , with the love of long years , fondly clings , it is the Old Haw- thorn Tree in ...
... stranger in his own birthplace . And if , amid all , there be one ob- ject which still remains unchanged , and to which in its unchangeableness , he still , with the love of long years , fondly clings , it is the Old Haw- thorn Tree in ...
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Martingale. decked with their noble antlered heads upraised to gaze at the approaching stranger — through the intricacies of the tangled , uneven cliff , and the smoothness of the quiet lane - over the commanding hill - top which ...
Martingale. decked with their noble antlered heads upraised to gaze at the approaching stranger — through the intricacies of the tangled , uneven cliff , and the smoothness of the quiet lane - over the commanding hill - top which ...
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... stranger . To him , with hopes extinguished , affections blighted , and happiness banished , without a home and lone in the world - to him , in the calm evening hour , when the Village Bells have rung their cheerful harmony in his ...
... stranger . To him , with hopes extinguished , affections blighted , and happiness banished , without a home and lone in the world - to him , in the calm evening hour , when the Village Bells have rung their cheerful harmony in his ...
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... stranger among strangers - yet the greatest beauty in a troop of beauties . And although forty summers have left their traces , faint withal , 44 THE WOOD SIDE .
... stranger among strangers - yet the greatest beauty in a troop of beauties . And although forty summers have left their traces , faint withal , 44 THE WOOD SIDE .
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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...