The curate of Cumberworth: and The vicar of Roost, by the author of 'The owlet of Owlstone Edge'. |
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... knew nothing of the sensation which results to the man who burns his fingers . Everybody , I suppose , has holes in his coat somewhere ; but if Mr. Smith was in the same con- dition with the rest of the world , his rents and tears must ...
... knew nothing of the sensation which results to the man who burns his fingers . Everybody , I suppose , has holes in his coat somewhere ; but if Mr. Smith was in the same con- dition with the rest of the world , his rents and tears must ...
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... knew that I go to bed early , and never obliged me to sit up for him . A missed man , sir , is Mr. Blandy , both by rich and poor ; and how Mr. Gib- son is ever to get on without him , I don't see . It was like cutting his own throat ...
... knew that I go to bed early , and never obliged me to sit up for him . A missed man , sir , is Mr. Blandy , both by rich and poor ; and how Mr. Gib- son is ever to get on without him , I don't see . It was like cutting his own throat ...
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... knew better ; for above all that clatter , I heard the old man's voice shouting out to me that I was his slave henceforth . And so I am , " she added with a shud- der , " he knows everything I do and say , for there he sits within the ...
... knew better ; for above all that clatter , I heard the old man's voice shouting out to me that I was his slave henceforth . And so I am , " she added with a shud- der , " he knows everything I do and say , for there he sits within the ...
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... knew little , though as the day advanced , he grew more enlightened as to the topography of Cumberworth . Its popula- tion was obviously in the harvest - fields , and there- fore he made no explorations among the cottages , where closed ...
... knew little , though as the day advanced , he grew more enlightened as to the topography of Cumberworth . Its popula- tion was obviously in the harvest - fields , and there- fore he made no explorations among the cottages , where closed ...
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... knew what o'clock it was . Mr. Smith thanked her , nodded , smiled affably , and pointed to his watch , which lay open before him . " When you know me better , Mrs. Finch , you will not think it necessary to look me up . You will find ...
... knew what o'clock it was . Mr. Smith thanked her , nodded , smiled affably , and pointed to his watch , which lay open before him . " When you know me better , Mrs. Finch , you will not think it necessary to look me up . You will find ...
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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.