Oakwood Hall: A Novel; Including a Description of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and a Part of South Wales, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1819 - Lake District (England) |
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Page 159 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 25 - you keep slave, slave, and let your daughter sit reading the Pope, and the Four Seasons, and the Young Night Thoughts, when she ought to be making a pudding, or sweeping up the house!1 — ' Why,' says she,
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Page 207 - The lower reach of the lake approaches the open country ; and its boundaries are not so grand on one' side, or so romantic on the other. From the end of Ullswater we accompanied its outlet, the river Emont, through a rich country of corn and grass, with a chain of mountains in the back ground.
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Page 185 - Millichamp started, and cast on him a look of the utmost contempt : and it was not till several books had been taken down, that he was convinced they were real paper and print, and laughed at his own credulity. He now forgets . to eat, in earnest, as my brother predicted in jest. The hours pass away unperceived, when he is in the library ; and, as our maxim of " Every man in his humour" extends to our visitor, we never summon him to dinner, and have several times dined without him.