Penruddock, by the author of 'Waltzburg'.1835 |
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... felt , and most of them for the first time , how useful such persons can be . Their only method of escaping starvation was to rest at some river - side public - house or inn , and procure refreshment , to be eaten in the boat . The cold ...
... felt , and most of them for the first time , how useful such persons can be . Their only method of escaping starvation was to rest at some river - side public - house or inn , and procure refreshment , to be eaten in the boat . The cold ...
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... felt that yet , " said Deverel , laughing , " nor do we mean it . Before The seasons ' difference or the icy fang Of winter blows upon my body , ' I shall be snug in my twelve feet twelve , amid musty parchments , enlivened by Coke upon ...
... felt that yet , " said Deverel , laughing , " nor do we mean it . Before The seasons ' difference or the icy fang Of winter blows upon my body , ' I shall be snug in my twelve feet twelve , amid musty parchments , enlivened by Coke upon ...
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... felt a mother's love for both ; born and educated in the family , it was her boast that she had never slept one night from under the roof of Astol House , and when her mother died she was appointed housekeeper . Having no relations ...
... felt a mother's love for both ; born and educated in the family , it was her boast that she had never slept one night from under the roof of Astol House , and when her mother died she was appointed housekeeper . Having no relations ...
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... that such should be the case ; but love should never be her tor- ment ; she would not know a deeper love than the affection she bore her father ; she would main- PENRUDDOCK . tain with care the sentiments she felt for 94 PENRUDDOCK .
... that such should be the case ; but love should never be her tor- ment ; she would not know a deeper love than the affection she bore her father ; she would main- PENRUDDOCK . tain with care the sentiments she felt for 94 PENRUDDOCK .
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Penruddock. PENRUDDOCK . tain with care the sentiments she felt for those around her - Lucy , Weston , the domestics whom she had known from childhood , -they would all be dear ; but she would have no nearer love . The world , too , her ...
Penruddock. PENRUDDOCK . tain with care the sentiments she felt for those around her - Lucy , Weston , the domestics whom she had known from childhood , -they would all be dear ; but she would have no nearer love . The world , too , her ...
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Page 219 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 57 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 103 - midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Page 48 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 99 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 32 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 13 - As nothing did we die; but life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste...
Page 136 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 120 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 69 - Boon nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale and violet flower Found in each cliff a narrow bower...