The Rural Life of England, Volum 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 sider |
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Side 8
... head shone out skies so blue and serene that they seemed as though they could never change ? In every English bosom there lie many such sweet memories ; and if we look through the whole of one of the worst seasons that we have , what ...
... head shone out skies so blue and serene that they seemed as though they could never change ? In every English bosom there lie many such sweet memories ; and if we look through the whole of one of the worst seasons that we have , what ...
Side 23
... head . With quips and cranks — what time the woodlark there Scatters his loose notes on the sultry air , What time the king - fisher sits hushed below , Where silver - bright the water - lilies blow : - A Wake - the booths whitening the ...
... head . With quips and cranks — what time the woodlark there Scatters his loose notes on the sultry air , What time the king - fisher sits hushed below , Where silver - bright the water - lilies blow : - A Wake - the booths whitening the ...
Side 29
... head - stones , and green mounds , is separated often only by a sunk fence from his grounds . It blends into them , and the old grey tower lifts itself amongst trees which form one majes- tie mass with his own . The sabbath - bell rings ...
... head - stones , and green mounds , is separated often only by a sunk fence from his grounds . It blends into them , and the old grey tower lifts itself amongst trees which form one majes- tie mass with his own . The sabbath - bell rings ...
Side 35
... head of the table , with a news- paper in his hand , dressed in a coarse shooting - jacket and coloured cravat ; the duchess was in a plain morning dress and cap of the simplest character ; and the high - born women about the table ...
... head of the table , with a news- paper in his hand , dressed in a coarse shooting - jacket and coloured cravat ; the duchess was in a plain morning dress and cap of the simplest character ; and the high - born women about the table ...
Side 36
... head of the table , who gave us some interesting particulars of the salmon - fisheries of the Spey . The privilege of fishing the river within his lands is bought of him at the pretty sum of eight thousand pounds a - year . " The ladies ...
... head of the table , who gave us some interesting particulars of the salmon - fisheries of the Spey . The privilege of fishing the river within his lands is bought of him at the pretty sum of eight thousand pounds a - year . " The ladies ...
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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...