Rural Pickings, Or, Attractive Points in Country Life and SceneryW. Tegg & Company, 1846 - 222 páginas |
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... Gipsies , with their character and occupation . Gipsies in Spain . - Gipsy girl . - Gipsy adventure CHAPTER XIX . LONELY PLACES IN THE COUNTRY . Lonely houses . - Lonely lanes . - Lonely pools . - Lonely clumps of trees . — Taggard's ...
... Gipsies , with their character and occupation . Gipsies in Spain . - Gipsy girl . - Gipsy adventure CHAPTER XIX . LONELY PLACES IN THE COUNTRY . Lonely houses . - Lonely lanes . - Lonely pools . - Lonely clumps of trees . — Taggard's ...
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... gipsies.- The supposed murderers . - The ruffian at the house of Molly Prosser . - Preparation to pursue the gang . - Bradeley Coppice and the fields . - Capler Wood . - The shrill whistle . - The gipsy rob- bers found . The dark shed ...
... gipsies.- The supposed murderers . - The ruffian at the house of Molly Prosser . - Preparation to pursue the gang . - Bradeley Coppice and the fields . - Capler Wood . - The shrill whistle . - The gipsy rob- bers found . The dark shed ...
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... Gipsies , with their character and occupation . -Gipsies in Spain . - Gipsy girl . - Gipsy adventure . I COULD never help regarding among the pickings of the country , the strollers of different kinds that visit , at uncer- tain periods ...
... Gipsies , with their character and occupation . -Gipsies in Spain . - Gipsy girl . - Gipsy adventure . I COULD never help regarding among the pickings of the country , the strollers of different kinds that visit , at uncer- tain periods ...
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... Gipsies still retain their wandering and predatory habits , but they seldom indulge now in the fearless enter- prises and daring deeds in which they formerly took delight . Their encampments in the shady nook by the way - side , on the ...
... Gipsies still retain their wandering and predatory habits , but they seldom indulge now in the fearless enter- prises and daring deeds in which they formerly took delight . Their encampments in the shady nook by the way - side , on the ...
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... gipsies are called Gitanoes , and often are their swarthy fingers employed in striking the guitar in the romantic woods of that country . A passage in Cervantes , freely translated , would be something like the following : - 66 ' We gipsies ...
... gipsies are called Gitanoes , and often are their swarthy fingers employed in striking the guitar in the romantic woods of that country . A passage in Cervantes , freely translated , would be something like the following : - 66 ' We gipsies ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abroad Antiparos archery Badby bank beauty beneath birds Black Jack blackberries blue boughs bramble breathes breeze bright brook brow bull-baiting called church clouds coppice corncrake cottage cowslip dark delight dogs earth farm farm-houses farmer Fawley Fawley Court fields flowers fold-yard foliage fresh garden gate gathered gaze George Hodges gipsies glory glowing goodly grass green grey hand happy head heard heart heaven hedge hills hollow horses hour kind labour Lake Crystal lane light look Lord meadow mingled Mont Blanc Mount Mucklestone mountain natural never night o'er peace perseverance PETER PARLEY'S pleasant pleasure plough ploughmen poor racter rook round rural scenes scenery seen sere skies smock-frock spirit stand stone stood summer sunny sweet thee things Thomas Cole thou thought tion trees village wandering water-cressers wild William Howitt wind wings Wolverley wood young
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Página 104 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my' God ! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the v'iew, I 'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 25 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Página 39 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
Página 155 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 209 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Página 155 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven : As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm.
Página 200 - Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with himself or with nature at war, He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
Página 185 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...
Página 169 - Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Página 187 - Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.