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Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton. TO MY READERS If only I had much to give ! Yet I Give you my best . In all humility and love in this One thought I rest . Grant me your tender kindness as of yore , In highest dreams I would not ask for more ...
Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton. TO MY READERS If only I had much to give ! Yet I Give you my best . In all humility and love in this One thought I rest . Grant me your tender kindness as of yore , In highest dreams I would not ask for more ...
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... give in . Nothing hurried him , and he liked to think he was the oldest man in the parish and was at work still . He kept the roads like trimmed carriage drives , and waged war against pic- turesque brambles and wild roses . He had ...
... give in . Nothing hurried him , and he liked to think he was the oldest man in the parish and was at work still . He kept the roads like trimmed carriage drives , and waged war against pic- turesque brambles and wild roses . He had ...
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... give us as we question her . First of all , the hoppers go to the farmer , and each draws a number by lot ; then his or her name is entered in a book . The number is the standing - place in the field , where all share alike except No. 1 ...
... give us as we question her . First of all , the hoppers go to the farmer , and each draws a number by lot ; then his or her name is entered in a book . The number is the standing - place in the field , where all share alike except No. 1 ...
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... order must change and must give place to new , man , for " auld lang syne , " will do all in his power to preserve for present and future genera- tions " our largest British bird . " I N MOOR PARK EHN " And I too dream'd 49 D Herons at ...
... order must change and must give place to new , man , for " auld lang syne , " will do all in his power to preserve for present and future genera- tions " our largest British bird . " I N MOOR PARK EHN " And I too dream'd 49 D Herons at ...
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Page 229 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 182 - THE sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; The bats are flitting fast in the grey air ; The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep, And evening's breath, wandering here and there Over the quivering surface of the stream, Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.
Page 162 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 78 - The residence of people of fortune and refinement in the country has diffused a degree of taste and elegance in rural economy, that descends to the lowest class. The very labourer, with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground, attends to their embellishment.
Page 152 - Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad the day, Whilst yet the calm hours creep, Dream thou — and from thy sleep Then wake to weep.
Page 118 - Obedient to the light That shone within his soul, he went, pursuing The windings of the dell. - The rivulet Wanton and wild, through many a green ravine Beneath the forest flowed. Sometimes it fell Among the moss with hollow harmony Dark and profound. Now on the polished stones It danced; like childhood laughing as it went: Then, through the plain in tranquil wanderings crept, 500 Reflecting every herb and drooping bud That overhung its quietness.
Page 245 - DE TABLEY (LORD). POEMS, DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By JOHN LEICESTER WARREN (Lord De Tabley). Illustrations and Cover Design by CS RICKETTS. Second Edition. Crown 8vo.
Page 248 - JOHNSON (LIONEL). THE ART OF THOMAS HARDY : Six Essays. With Etched Portrait by WM. STRANG, and Bibliography by JOHN LANE. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net. Also 150 copies, large paper, with proofs of the portrait. £i, is. net. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Page 84 - ... throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside, all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant.