The curate of Cumberworth: and The vicar of Roost, by the author of 'The owlet of Owlstone Edge'. |
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... eyes of gold paper , and whiskers of pig's bristles , with a receptacle behind for allumettes , for which a substitute had been found in a bunch of quaking - grass . Also , there was at each end of the mantelpiece a shell - man , with a ...
... eyes of gold paper , and whiskers of pig's bristles , with a receptacle behind for allumettes , for which a substitute had been found in a bunch of quaking - grass . Also , there was at each end of the mantelpiece a shell - man , with a ...
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... eye . If it hadn't been for his old - fashioned courtesy , I should not have felt sure that he wasn't quizzing me . I think I shall like him , for there seems good at bot- tom : but he is evidently quite an original , and most likely ...
... eye . If it hadn't been for his old - fashioned courtesy , I should not have felt sure that he wasn't quizzing me . I think I shall like him , for there seems good at bot- tom : but he is evidently quite an original , and most likely ...
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... eye , Says , very wisely , ' It is ten o'clock : Thus we may see , ' quoth he , how the world wags : ' Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more ' twill be eleven . ' " ' As you like it . For BUT the Curate of ...
... eye , Says , very wisely , ' It is ten o'clock : Thus we may see , ' quoth he , how the world wags : ' Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more ' twill be eleven . ' " ' As you like it . For BUT the Curate of ...
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... eyes very widely , perhaps for the purpose of satisfying him- self that he was not still dreaming , and began to wonder whether all the people in Cumberworth dressed so oddly , and spoke so grandiloquently . He declined the breakfast ...
... eyes very widely , perhaps for the purpose of satisfying him- self that he was not still dreaming , and began to wonder whether all the people in Cumberworth dressed so oddly , and spoke so grandiloquently . He declined the breakfast ...
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... eyes that the proper change was made . He waited till he was satisfied , and then pro- ceeded homewards . Becky Beccles watched him from a narrow slit in the turret which she was descending , and then with a chuckle ejaculated , " Well ...
... eyes that the proper change was made . He waited till he was satisfied , and then pro- ceeded homewards . Becky Beccles watched him from a narrow slit in the turret which she was descending , and then with a chuckle ejaculated , " Well ...
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Page 31 - twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 144 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 233 - WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain ; He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 133 - Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...
Page 221 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 182 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.