Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volumen2G[eo.] B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volumen2 Mary Russell Mitford Vista completa - 1828 |
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admirable amongst amused beauty better blossoms bonnet bright called castle Charles North charming child Cleora clever colour Comus coppice copse cottage creature cricket dear delicate delightful dress elegant English Eurydice Evelyn eyes face fair father favourite flowers fortune-teller French garden gentle George Ellis gipsy girl godfather green Gretna Green habits half hand happy head honour humour husband Jack Hatch knew lamb laugh lived Loddon river London look Lucy Lynx Madame maid manner Mary Miss morning neighbours ness never nosegay parish party passed person play pleasant poor pretty quackery racter rich Robert Heron rose round Saladin Sally scolding seemed side smiling sort sure sweet talk tall thing Thomas Thomas Lamb thought tion trees turned twenty Urania village voice walk whilst whole wife wind woman wood-sorrel word youth Zenobie
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Página 108 - Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder, But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder, In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, 498 That first he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Página 108 - But rather wolde he yeven out of doute, Unto his poure parishens aboute, Of his offring, and eke of his substance. He coude in litel thing have suffisance. Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder, But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder, In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf.
Página 283 - Of images in seemly row ; The graceful form of milk-white steed, Or bird that soared with Ganymede ; Or through our hamlets thou wilt bear The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled ; And Shakspeare at his side — a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world...
Página 21 - Wondrous beautiful her face ; But so weak and small her wit That she to govern was unfit, And so Susanna took her place. But when Isabella came, Armed with a resistless flame And th...
Página 107 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk That Cristes gospel gladly wolde preche ; His parischens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversite...
Página 104 - ... the very children who were picking up the chips, seemed awed and silent, as if conscious that death was around them. The nightingales sang faintly and interruptedly — a few low frightened notes like a requiem. Ah ! here we are at the very scene of murder, the very tree that they are felling ; they have just hewn round the trunk with those slaughtering axes, and are about to saw it asunder. After all it is a fine and thrilling operation, as the work of death usually is.
Página 108 - But in his teching discrete and benigne. To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse : But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were of highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones.
Página 115 - Fresh were his features, his attire was new; Clean was his linen, and his jacket blue: Of finest jean, his trowsers, tight and trim, Brush'd the large buckle at the silver rim.
Página 105 - ... with a lurid and portentous grandeur, a subdued and dusky glow, like the light reflected on the sky from some vast conflagration. The deep flush fades away, and the rain begins to descend; and we hurry homeward rapidly, yet sadly, forgetful alike of the flowers, the hedgehog, and the wetting, thinking and talking only of the fallen tree.
Página 107 - PERSONE of a toun : But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversite ful patient : And swiche he was ypreved often sithes.