The Rural Life of England, Volum 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 sider |
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... Habits in all Nations - Their Language - Various Names by which they are and have been known - M. Hasse's Theory of their Antiquity - Pointed out by Herodotus and Strabo - Causes of their more numerous appearance in Western Europe about ...
... Habits in all Nations - Their Language - Various Names by which they are and have been known - M. Hasse's Theory of their Antiquity - Pointed out by Herodotus and Strabo - Causes of their more numerous appearance in Western Europe about ...
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... Habits - In- stances of Eccentricities of Character - Dislike of Factories -Every Person and House has its Name - Singular Story of Deception practised on a rich Widow -- Peculiar Customs of the Dales - Their Hospitality CHAPTER IV ...
... Habits - In- stances of Eccentricities of Character - Dislike of Factories -Every Person and House has its Name - Singular Story of Deception practised on a rich Widow -- Peculiar Customs of the Dales - Their Hospitality CHAPTER IV ...
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... plain and mountain , farm and hamlet , and making acquaintance with the dwellings , habits , and feelings of both gentle and simple . 15 CHAPTER II . ENVIABLE POSITION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRY 14 ENGLAND AS A RESIDENCE .
... plain and mountain , farm and hamlet , and making acquaintance with the dwellings , habits , and feelings of both gentle and simple . 15 CHAPTER II . ENVIABLE POSITION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRY 14 ENGLAND AS A RESIDENCE .
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... habit , of spending so much time in the metropolis ; of the vast sums there spent in ostenta- tious rivalry , in equipage and establishments ; in the dissipations of theatres , operas , routes , and gaming- houses ; and unquestionably ...
... habit , of spending so much time in the metropolis ; of the vast sums there spent in ostenta- tious rivalry , in equipage and establishments ; in the dissipations of theatres , operas , routes , and gaming- houses ; and unquestionably ...
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... habit of reserve is worn off , which is always contracted by those who live in solitary seclu- sion , in the midst of vast estates , with none but tenants and dependents around them . They are also brought into contact with men of ...
... habit of reserve is worn off , which is always contracted by those who live in solitary seclu- sion , in the midst of vast estates , with none but tenants and dependents around them . They are also brought into contact with men of ...
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Side 265 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith. All things, responsive to the writing, there Breathed immortality, revolving life, And greatness still revolving; infinite: There littleness was not...
Side 376 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Side 70 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Side 358 - I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Side 358 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.
Side 330 - HERE I am at Houghton! and alone! in this spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been in sixteen years! Think, what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray, and forty church-yards, could not furnish so many; nay, I know one must feel them with greater indifference than I possess, to have patience to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time: every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into...
Side v - All bonds of natural love, and find them all Within the limits of thy rocky shores. 0 native Britain! O my Mother Isle! How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and seas, Have drunk in all my intellectual life...
Side 12 - The ships of war that prowled like guardian giants along the coast ; the headlands of Ireland, stretching out into the channel ; the Welsh mountains, towering into the clouds ; all were objects of intense interest. As we sailed up the Mersey, I reconnoitered the shores with a telescope.
Side 381 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
Side 374 - Had wandered from its dwelling, and her eyes, — They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth : she was become The queen of a fantastic realm ; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things ; And forms — impalpable and unperccived Of others' sight — familiar were to hers, And this the world calls frenzy...