The Rural Life of England, المجلد 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... fact , to the pervading and per- petual atmosphere of your house , that I owe everything which has directed me onward in life : scorning what- ever is mean ; aspiring after whatever is generous and noble ; loving the poor and the weak ...
... fact , to the pervading and per- petual atmosphere of your house , that I owe everything which has directed me onward in life : scorning what- ever is mean ; aspiring after whatever is generous and noble ; loving the poor and the weak ...
الصفحة ix
... is true , some exhibitions of critical spleen , to us quite unaccountable - has been shewn to our writings themselves . - Whilst acknowledging this , there is one fact that I am bound not to pass over without notice .
... is true , some exhibitions of critical spleen , to us quite unaccountable - has been shewn to our writings themselves . - Whilst acknowledging this , there is one fact that I am bound not to pass over without notice .
الصفحة x
... Book of the Seasons ( p . 223 ) , without any acknowledgment whence it came , and probably without his knowing it . I am bound to notice these facts , for the mainten- ance of literary right . If such a system be X PREFACE .
... Book of the Seasons ( p . 223 ) , without any acknowledgment whence it came , and probably without his knowing it . I am bound to notice these facts , for the mainten- ance of literary right . If such a system be X PREFACE .
الصفحة xvii
... Fact related by a Minister of the Society of Friends - Sturdy Rogues - Fright of an Old Gentleman with one - Cowardice inspired by living in a Solitary House - Superstitions generated by such Places - Concluding Remarks CHAPTER VI ...
... Fact related by a Minister of the Society of Friends - Sturdy Rogues - Fright of an Old Gentleman with one - Cowardice inspired by living in a Solitary House - Superstitions generated by such Places - Concluding Remarks CHAPTER VI ...
الصفحة 18
... facts in our general literature ; of the glorious and ennobling themes of our great poets . What a mighty difference is there between the exist- ence of one of our old baronial ancestors , who could not read , but as he sate over his ...
... facts in our general literature ; of the glorious and ennobling themes of our great poets . What a mighty difference is there between the exist- ence of one of our old baronial ancestors , who could not read , but as he sate over his ...
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الصفحة 265 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith. All things, responsive to the writing, there Breathed immortality, revolving life, And greatness still revolving; infinite: There littleness was not...
الصفحة 376 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
الصفحة 70 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
الصفحة 358 - I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
الصفحة 358 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.
الصفحة 330 - HERE I am at Houghton! and alone! in this spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been in sixteen years! Think, what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray, and forty church-yards, could not furnish so many; nay, I know one must feel them with greater indifference than I possess, to have patience to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time: every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into...
الصفحة v - All bonds of natural love, and find them all Within the limits of thy rocky shores. 0 native Britain! O my Mother Isle! How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and seas, Have drunk in all my intellectual life...
الصفحة 12 - The ships of war that prowled like guardian giants along the coast ; the headlands of Ireland, stretching out into the channel ; the Welsh mountains, towering into the clouds ; all were objects of intense interest. As we sailed up the Mersey, I reconnoitered the shores with a telescope.
الصفحة 381 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
الصفحة 374 - Had wandered from its dwelling, and her eyes, — They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth : she was become The queen of a fantastic realm ; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things ; And forms — impalpable and unperccived Of others' sight — familiar were to hers, And this the world calls frenzy...