The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the FirstCrissy, 1841 - 672 páginas |
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... hour after hour in a green arbour , em- bowered in leafiness , letting thought and fancy float as they would . Those day - dreams were pretty things in their way ; there is no deny- ing that . But then , if one half of the world were to ...
... hour after hour in a green arbour , em- bowered in leafiness , letting thought and fancy float as they would . Those day - dreams were pretty things in their way ; there is no deny- ing that . But then , if one half of the world were to ...
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... hour . They are quite safe ; and I shall walk here to - morrow and visit them again . And now , good night ! beautiful insects , lamps of the fairies , good night ! THE TALKING GENTLEMAN . I only mean to assert that one gentleman does ...
... hour . They are quite safe ; and I shall walk here to - morrow and visit them again . And now , good night ! beautiful insects , lamps of the fairies , good night ! THE TALKING GENTLEMAN . I only mean to assert that one gentleman does ...
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... hour , and he will pass for a most reverend orator , -logical , pathetic , and vigorous above all . But how can I wish him to cease jesting even for an hour ? Who would exchange the genial fame of good - hu- moured wit for the stern ...
... hour , and he will pass for a most reverend orator , -logical , pathetic , and vigorous above all . But how can I wish him to cease jesting even for an hour ? Who would exchange the genial fame of good - hu- moured wit for the stern ...
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... hour ; -it is such an exceedingly border , consisting of a strip of fine muslin , cross and frumpish - looking colour - and then edged with narrow lace , clear - starched and its ugliness ! Show me a brown flower ! No ! crimped , was ...
... hour ; -it is such an exceedingly border , consisting of a strip of fine muslin , cross and frumpish - looking colour - and then edged with narrow lace , clear - starched and its ugliness ! Show me a brown flower ! No ! crimped , was ...
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... hour was pleasant ; but I think the hours of chat which preceded and followed it were pleasanter still . Mossy was a most agreeable companion , sensible , modest , sim- ple , shrewd , with an exactness of recollection , an honesty of ...
... hour was pleasant ; but I think the hours of chat which preceded and followed it were pleasanter still . Mossy was a most agreeable companion , sensible , modest , sim- ple , shrewd , with an exactness of recollection , an honesty of ...
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Página 342 - Loved the church so well, and gave so largely to't, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday ; but all things have their end : Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have.
Página 419 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Página 40 - He could not run division with more art Upon his quaking instrument, than she The nightingale did with her various notes Reply to.
Página 40 - To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came ; and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks.
Página 30 - ... like a young Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a ladder, with one foot on the roof of a house, flinging down the grapes that no one else had nerve enough to reach, laughing, and garlanded, and crowned with vine leaves, like a Bacchante. But the prettiest combination of circumstances under which I ever saw her, was driving a donkey cart up a hill one sunny windy day, in September.
Página 41 - Alas, poor creature, I will soon revenge This cruelty upon the author of it. Henceforth this lute, guilty of innocent blood, Shall never more betray a harmless peace To an untimely end ;" and in that sorrow, As he was pashing it against a tree, I suddenly stept in.
Página 13 - She did, indeed, just hint at her troubles with visitors and servants, — how strange and sad it was ! seemed distressed at ringing the bell, and visibly shrank from the sound of a double knock. But, in spite of these calamities, Hannah is a happy woman. The double rap was her husband's ; and the glow on her cheek, and the smile of her lips and eyes when he appeared, spoke more plainly than ever, " Any where with him !
Página 394 - Naiads' cells, And, being hidden, laugh at their out-peeping; Or to delight thee with fantastic leaping, The while they pelt each other on the crown...
Página 48 - Behind these sallows, in a nook between them and the hill, rose the uncouth and shapeless cottage of Tom Cordery. It is a scene which hangs upon the eye and the memory, striking, grand, almost sublime, and above all eminently foreign. No English painter would choose such a subject for an English landscape ; no one in a picture would take it for English. It might pass for one of those scenes which have furnished models to Salvator Rosa. Tom's cottage was, however, very thoroughly national and characteristic...
Página 405 - Et que de me complaire on ne prend nul souci. Oui, je sors de chez vous fort mal édifiée : Dans toutes mes leçons j'y suis contrariée ; On n'y respecte rien, chacun y parle haut, Et c'est tout justement la cour du roi Pétaud.