The Vicar of Wakefield: A TaleJesper Harding, 1847 - 288 páginas |
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... scarce tak- en orders a year , before I began to think seriously of matrimony , and chose my wife as she did her wedding gown , not for a fine glossy surface , but such qualities as would wear well . To do her justice , she was a good ...
... scarce tak- en orders a year , before I began to think seriously of matrimony , and chose my wife as she did her wedding gown , not for a fine glossy surface , but such qualities as would wear well . To do her justice , she was a good ...
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... scarce fortitude itself could suppress . Be- sides , a journey of seventy miles to a fam- ily that had never been above ten from home , filled us with apprehension ; and the cries of the poor , who followed us for some miles ...
... scarce fortitude itself could suppress . Be- sides , a journey of seventy miles to a fam- ily that had never been above ten from home , filled us with apprehension ; and the cries of the poor , who followed us for some miles ...
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... scarce a farmer's daughter within ten miles round but that had found him successful and faithless . Though this account gave me some pain , it had a very different effect upon my daughters , whose features seemed to brighten with the ...
... scarce a farmer's daughter within ten miles round but that had found him successful and faithless . Though this account gave me some pain , it had a very different effect upon my daughters , whose features seemed to brighten with the ...
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... scarce attained the age of thirty , his cir- cumstances are more affluent than ever . At present , his bounties are more rational and moderate , than before ; but still he eserves the character of a humorist , and finds most pleasure in ...
... scarce attained the age of thirty , his cir- cumstances are more affluent than ever . At present , his bounties are more rational and moderate , than before ; but still he eserves the character of a humorist , and finds most pleasure in ...
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... scarce knew that temperance was a virtue . They wrought with cheerfulness on days of labor ; but observed festivals as intervals of idleness and pleasure . They kept up the Christ- mas carol , sent true love - knots on Valen- tine ...
... scarce knew that temperance was a virtue . They wrought with cheerfulness on days of labor ; but observed festivals as intervals of idleness and pleasure . They kept up the Christ- mas carol , sent true love - knots on Valen- tine ...
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amusing appearance baronet Berosus better Burchell called catgut ceived CHAPTER charms cheerful chell child comfort continued cried Moses cried my wife cried the squire daugh daughter dear dressed eldest fellow Flamborough fortune friendship gave gentleman girls give going guilt happy heart heaven honest honor hope horse kinson knew ladies leave ligion Livy look madam Manetho manner marriage married miseries Miss Wilmot morning mother neighbor ness never night observed Ocellus Lucanus Olivia once pain papa passion perceived pipe and tabor pleased pleasure poor post-chaise pounds prison promise raptures replied resolved rest returned rich round scarce seemed shagreen Sir William sister smile soon Sophia stranger sure SWEET Auburn tell thee thing Thornhill Thornhill's thou thought tion town turn VICAR OF WAKEFIELD virtue wretched young
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Página 253 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Página 256 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee, \ At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 254 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 255 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 255 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Página 48 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn ; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong ; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 257 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound And news much older than their ale went round.
Página 258 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 258 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress...
Página 257 - These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested...