The vicar of WakefieldK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - 308 páginas |
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... wretched it seems , but has some sort of comfort attending it · CHAPTER XXVI . A reformation in the gaol - To make laws complete , they should reward as well as punish CHAPTER XXVII . The same subject continued 229 237 • 246 CHAPTER ...
... wretched it seems , but has some sort of comfort attending it · CHAPTER XXVI . A reformation in the gaol - To make laws complete , they should reward as well as punish CHAPTER XXVII . The same subject continued 229 237 • 246 CHAPTER ...
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... wretched must be repaid the balance of their suffer- ings in the life hereafter . CHAPTER XXX . Happier prospects begin to appear─Let us be inflexible , and fortune will at last change in our favour CHAPTER XXXI . · Former benevolence ...
... wretched must be repaid the balance of their suffer- ings in the life hereafter . CHAPTER XXX . Happier prospects begin to appear─Let us be inflexible , and fortune will at last change in our favour CHAPTER XXXI . · Former benevolence ...
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... wretched , and seek , in humbler circumstances , that peace with which all may be happy . The poor live pleasantly without our help ; why then should not we learn to live without theirs ? No , my children , let us from this moment give ...
... wretched , and seek , in humbler circumstances , that peace with which all may be happy . The poor live pleasantly without our help ; why then should not we learn to live without theirs ? No , my children , let us from this moment give ...
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... wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound , The modern fair one's jest ; On earth unseen , or only found To warm the turtle's nest . " For shame , fond youth , thy sorrows hush , And spurn the sex , " he said : But while he ...
... wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound , The modern fair one's jest ; On earth unseen , or only found To warm the turtle's nest . " For shame , fond youth , thy sorrows hush , And spurn the sex , " he said : But while he ...
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... my passion . " Ungrateful wretch ! begone , and no longer pollute my dwelling with thy baseness . Begone ! and never let me see thee again ; go from my door , and the only punishment I wish THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD . 121.
... my passion . " Ungrateful wretch ! begone , and no longer pollute my dwelling with thy baseness . Begone ! and never let me see thee again ; go from my door , and the only punishment I wish THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD . 121.
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acquainted amusement appearance assured baronet Berosus Burchell catgut CHAPTER cheerful child choly comfort continued cried Moses cried my wife cried the squire daughter dear distress eldest favour fortune friendship gaoler gave gentleman girls give going guilt happy heart Heaven honest honour hope horse interrupted Jenkinson knew letter live Livy look madam Manetho manner marriage married melan miseries Miss Wilmot morning mother musical glasses neighbour never night observed Ocellus Lucanus Olivia once opinion pain papa passion perceived perfectly pipe and tabor pleased pleasure poor post-chaise pounds present prison promise rapture received replied resolved rest returned rich Saracens scarcely seemed shagreen Sir William sister soon Sophia stranger sure tell thee things Thornhill Thornhill's thou thought tion town turn VICAR OF WAKEFIELD virtue wretched young lady
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Página 138 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wond'rous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Página 66 - The dew, the blossom on the tree, With charms inconstant shine ; Their charms were his, but woe to me, Their constancy was mine. "For still I tried each fickle art, Importunate and vain ; And while his passion touch'd my heart, I triumph'd in his pain.
Página 96 - You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims; for they are not worth sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Página 61 - Forbear, my son,' the hermit cries, 'To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. 'Here to the houseless child of want, My door is open still ; And tho' my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página 127 - Venus, and the painter was desired not to be too frugal of his diamonds in her stomacher and hair. Her two little ones were to be as Cupids by her side, while I, in my gown and band, was to present her with my books on the Whistonian controversy. Olivia would be drawn as an Amazon, sitting upon a bank of flowers, dressed in a green Joseph, richly laced with gold, and a whip in her hand. Sophia was to be a shepherdess, with as many sheep as the painter could put in for nothing ; and Moses was to be...
Página 15 - And then she would bid the girls hold up their heads; who, to conceal nothing, were certainly very handsome. Mere outside is so very trifling a circumstance with me, that I should scarce have remembered to mention it, had it not been a general topic of conversation in the country.
Página 34 - THE place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood, consisting of farmers, who tilled their own grounds, and were equal strangers to opulence and poverty. As they had almost all the conveniences of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns or cities in search of superfluity. Remote from the polite, they still retained the primeval simplicity of manners ; and, frugal by habit, they scarce knew that temperance was a virtue.
Página 95 - I'll tell you a good story about that, that will make you split your sides with laughing. — But, as I live, yonder comes Moses, without a horse, and the box at his back.
Página 97 - There, again, you are wrong, my dear," cried I ; " for though they be copper, we will keep them by us, as copper spectacles, you know, are better than nothing.
Página 222 - The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die.