A Campaigner at HomeLongman, 1865 - 367 pages |
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... least all the year round I should prefer the solitude of a crowd to the solitude of the desert . My faculties are apt to get rusty when they are left to air in the fields too long . The earliest days of a country life are very well ...
... least all the year round I should prefer the solitude of a crowd to the solitude of the desert . My faculties are apt to get rusty when they are left to air in the fields too long . The earliest days of a country life are very well ...
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... least , he had driven the mail in the days of my boyhood , and he was still driving it when I returned in my old age . When I had taken my place beside him ( there was only room for one passenger beside the driver ) , I confess I felt ...
... least , he had driven the mail in the days of my boyhood , and he was still driving it when I returned in my old age . When I had taken my place beside him ( there was only room for one passenger beside the driver ) , I confess I felt ...
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... least a bed of roses . And so the Doctor found it ; but he throve upon contention ; had he had it all his own way , tedium vita would have finished him in a week ; he was never more cheerful than when a nestful of hornets was buzzing ...
... least a bed of roses . And so the Doctor found it ; but he throve upon contention ; had he had it all his own way , tedium vita would have finished him in a week ; he was never more cheerful than when a nestful of hornets was buzzing ...
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... least , to get other people to pay them ) was not so prevalent as it seemed to be elsewhere ; and I took my seat and as- sumed my gown , and the golden insignia of office , with becoming gravity . At the first meeting which I at- tended ...
... least , to get other people to pay them ) was not so prevalent as it seemed to be elsewhere ; and I took my seat and as- sumed my gown , and the golden insignia of office , with becoming gravity . At the first meeting which I at- tended ...
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... least ( which came to the same thing ) , had never been convicted of any grave offence . From the neutral tint of the bishops the descent to more direct and robust eulogy was gradual . The dean was cordial ; the vicar , unguarded ...
... least ( which came to the same thing ) , had never been convicted of any grave offence . From the neutral tint of the bishops the descent to more direct and robust eulogy was gradual . The dean was cordial ; the vicar , unguarded ...
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Page 321 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 62 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 276 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Page 73 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 265 - Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 251 - As for Venice and her people, merely born to bloom and drop, "Here on earth they bore their fruitage, mirth and folly were the crop: "What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Page 125 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Page 261 - Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off. And Moses with the tables ... but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
Page 45 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves; And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Page 276 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, — And the sweet white brow is all of her.