Belford Regis: Or, Sketches of a Country Town, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1835 - 439 pages |
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Belford Regis: Or, Sketches of a Country Town; Volume 2 Mary Russell Mitford No preview available - 2022 |
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Page 39 - Heedless he heard them : but disdain'd reply ; The bow perusing with exactest eye. Then, as some heavenly minstrel, taught to sing High notes responsive to the trembling string, To some new strain when he adapts the lyre, Or the dumb lute refits with vocal wire, Relaxes, strains, and draws them to and fro ; So the great master drew the mighty bow, And drew with ease. One hand aloft display'd The bending horns, and one the string essay'd. From his essaying hand the string, let fly, Twang'd short and...
Page 21 - ... with studious themes, The tasks I wrote— my present dreams Will never soar so high ! My joys are wingless all and dead ; My dumps are made of more than lead ; My flights soon find a fall ; My fears prevail, my fancies droop, Joy never cometh with a...
Page 40 - Signs from above ensued : th' unfolding sky In lightning burst ; Jove thunder'd from on high. Fired at the call of Heaven's almighty lord, He snatch'd the shaft that glitter'd on the board : (Fast by, the rest lay sleeping in the sheath, But soon to fly, the messengers of death.) Now sitting as he was, the cord he drew, Through every ringlet levelling his view ; Then notch'd the shaft, released, and gave it wing ; The whizzing arrow vanish'd from the string, Sung on direct and threaded every ring.
Page 11 - Whoever is open, loyal, and true ; whoever is of humane and affable demeanour ; whoever is honourable in himself, and caudid in his judgment of others, and requires no law but his word to make him fulfil an engagement ; such a man is a gentleman, and such a man may be found among the tillers of the earth.
Page 39 - While some deriding — How he turns the bow! Some other like it sure the man must know, Or else would copy; or in bows he deals; Perhaps he makes them, or perhaps he steals.
Page 40 - Signs from above ensu'd: the unfolding sky In lightning burst; Jove thunder'd from on high. Fir'd at the call of heaven's almighty lord, He snatch'd the shaft that glitter'd on the board: (Fast by, the rest lay sleeping in the sheath, But soon to fly the messengers of death. ) Now sitting as he was, the cord he drew, Through every ringlet levelling his view; Then notch'd the shaft, releas'd, and gave it wing; The whizzing arrow vanish'd from the string, Sung on direct, and threaded every ring. The...
Page 41 - The heavenly archer stands — no human birth, No perishable denizen of earth ? Youth blooms immortal in his beardless face, A God in strength, with more than godlike grace ; All, all divine — no struggling muscle...
Page 53 - Vernon at the top of the list; so that when the company adjourned to their early dinner, Frances was the favourite candidate, although the two young ladies were, in sporting phrase, neck and neck, : After dinner, however, when the gentlemen joined the ladies and the sports recommenced, Miss Page was nowhere to be found. Mrs. Page, on her daughter being called for, announced to the secretary that Lucy had abandoned the contest; and on being anxiously questioned by Horace and Frances as to the cause...
Page 174 - ... the city. Mark was, on his side, so entirely free from the visions of avarice, that, as soon as he had remained long enough in his office to entitle him to such a pension as should enable himself and his solitary servant-maid to exist in tolerable comfort, he forsook the trade of quilldriving, and returned to his native town to pass the remainder of his days in one of the smallest dwellings in Mill Lane. It was true that he had received some thousands with a wife who had died within a few months...
Page 15 - Street, in the good town of H — , and Miss Fenton, milliner, in the Market Place, each maintaining his and her separate and very various version of the appointed regulation doll, that nothing but the female privilege of scolding without fighting prevented that most serious breach of the peace called a duel. It has been hinted that the unfortunate third party (that is to say, the doll), was a sufferer in the fray, the flowers being torn from her bonnet, the bows from her petticoat, and the pelerine...