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Page 74
... windows were open we were not sensible of much discomfort from it . Supper was prepared and eaten - beds spread on the floor , and the children stowed away . Mrs. Jennings and our other " helps " had departed , and I prepared to rest ...
... windows were open we were not sensible of much discomfort from it . Supper was prepared and eaten - beds spread on the floor , and the children stowed away . Mrs. Jennings and our other " helps " had departed , and I prepared to rest ...
Page 79
... windows re- sembled his own eyes in being placed too near together , and looking all manner of ways . Several smaller buildings were also in progress , and for all these work- men at a high rate of wages were to be collected and ...
... windows re- sembled his own eyes in being placed too near together , and looking all manner of ways . Several smaller buildings were also in progress , and for all these work- men at a high rate of wages were to be collected and ...
Page 81
... window frames ; and them doors was made of such green stuff , that they won't go together no how . " 99 " Well , you can go on with the roof surely ! " Why , so we could ; but you know , sir , oak - shingle wouldn't answer for the mill ...
... window frames ; and them doors was made of such green stuff , that they won't go together no how . " 99 " Well , you can go on with the roof surely ! " Why , so we could ; but you know , sir , oak - shingle wouldn't answer for the mill ...
Page 99
... window was shaded by a pink curtain , and a bed - side chair and a candle - stand completed a sleeping apartment which she declared was perfectly delightful . So smoothly flowed our days during that charming 056449 visit that I had ...
... window was shaded by a pink curtain , and a bed - side chair and a candle - stand completed a sleeping apartment which she declared was perfectly delightful . So smoothly flowed our days during that charming 056449 visit that I had ...
Page 108
... window : there were the shelves , with our remaining crockery , a grotesque assortment ! and , just beneath , the unnameable iron and tin affairs , that are reckoned among the indispensables , even of the half - civilized state . She ...
... window : there were the shelves , with our remaining crockery , a grotesque assortment ! and , just beneath , the unnameable iron and tin affairs , that are reckoned among the indispensables , even of the half - civilized state . She ...
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Page 291 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 78 - Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body ; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years: this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
Page 152 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 107 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 89 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
Page 250 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 181 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where...
Page 133 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song, Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 116 - The pen, and ink, and a sheet o' paper, and a wafer,' is no unusual request ; and when the pen is returned, you are generally informed, that you sent ' an awful bad pen.' " I have been frequently reminded of one of Johnson's humorous sketches. A man returning a broken wheel-barrow to a Quaker, with ' Here, I 've broke your rotten wheel-barrow, usin
Page 116 - I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon." The Quaker is made to reply, "Friend, it shall be done:" and I wish I possessed more of his spirit.