A New Home - Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life?Francis, 1839 - 317 pages |
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... green suit of half - opened leaves , and the forest odours which exhaled with the dews of morning and evening , were beyond measure delicious to one " long in populous cities pent . " I desired much to be a little sentimental at the ...
... green suit of half - opened leaves , and the forest odours which exhaled with the dews of morning and evening , were beyond measure delicious to one " long in populous cities pent . " I desired much to be a little sentimental at the ...
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... green , but which proved on trial little better than a quaking bog - embracing within its ridgy circumference all possible varieties of " Muirs , and mosses , slaps and styles " - I had just indulged in something like a yawn , and wish ...
... green , but which proved on trial little better than a quaking bog - embracing within its ridgy circumference all possible varieties of " Muirs , and mosses , slaps and styles " - I had just indulged in something like a yawn , and wish ...
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... green as Erin on the top , but giving way on a touch , and seeming deep enough to have engulphed us entirely if its width had been proportionate . Down came the horse - and this was not all - down came the driver ; and I could not do ...
... green as Erin on the top , but giving way on a touch , and seeming deep enough to have engulphed us entirely if its width had been proportionate . Down came the horse - and this was not all - down came the driver ; and I could not do ...
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... green cut up in vinegar . I found we had only been waiting for a more lady - like meal , and having learned wisdom by former disappointment , I looked forward with no small satisfaction to something like refreshment . The tea was made ...
... green cut up in vinegar . I found we had only been waiting for a more lady - like meal , and having learned wisdom by former disappointment , I looked forward with no small satisfaction to something like refreshment . The tea was made ...
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... green " - could scarcely pass quite unfelt by one whose delight is in their beauty : but , alas ! who can be sentimental and hungry ? I alighted with gloomy forebodings . The house was dark - could it be that the family had already ...
... green " - could scarcely pass quite unfelt by one whose delight is in their beauty : but , alas ! who can be sentimental and hungry ? I alighted with gloomy forebodings . The house was dark - could it be that the family had already ...
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Page 291 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 78 - Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body ; therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years: this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
Page 152 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 107 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 89 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
Page 250 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 181 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where...
Page 133 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song, Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 116 - The pen, and ink, and a sheet o' paper, and a wafer,' is no unusual request ; and when the pen is returned, you are generally informed, that you sent ' an awful bad pen.' " I have been frequently reminded of one of Johnson's humorous sketches. A man returning a broken wheel-barrow to a Quaker, with ' Here, I 've broke your rotten wheel-barrow, usin
Page 116 - I wish you'd get it mended right off, 'cause I want to borrow it again this afternoon." The Quaker is made to reply, "Friend, it shall be done:" and I wish I possessed more of his spirit.