Over Fen and WoldMacmillan and Company, limited, 1898 - 447 páginas |
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... On the river Lea I find a paper mill , " but that is the only one of the sort I can discover , though " pouder " mills abound . The latter perhaps were called into requisition by the 46 recent Civil wars . One lonely house is marked "
... On the river Lea I find a paper mill , " but that is the only one of the sort I can discover , though " pouder " mills abound . The latter perhaps were called into requisition by the 46 recent Civil wars . One lonely house is marked "
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... called a halt in order to take a peep inside . We made it a point this journey never to pass by an ancient church , if near at hand , without stepping within for a glance , should happily , as in this case , the door be open ; but with ...
... called a halt in order to take a peep inside . We made it a point this journey never to pass by an ancient church , if near at hand , without stepping within for a glance , should happily , as in this case , the door be open ; but with ...
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... called it St. Notes , a second as emphatically declared it to be St. Nots , and still another would have it St. Neets , whilst we as strangers had innocently pronounced it as spelt ; and now I do not feel at all certain as to which is ...
... called it St. Notes , a second as emphatically declared it to be St. Nots , and still another would have it St. Neets , whilst we as strangers had innocently pronounced it as spelt ; and now I do not feel at all certain as to which is ...
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... called modern improvements - a place where the feverish rush of life seemed stayed . It struck us as being quaint rather than picturesque , though its curious old bridge , hoary with antiquity , certainly deserved both these epithets ...
... called modern improvements - a place where the feverish rush of life seemed stayed . It struck us as being quaint rather than picturesque , though its curious old bridge , hoary with antiquity , certainly deserved both these epithets ...
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... called Hunting - ton - or - modern English - and from this to Huntingdon is an easy transition . Curiously enough , just after writing this record of a chance conversation , I came upon a paragraph in the Standard giving an account of ...
... called Hunting - ton - or - modern English - and from this to Huntingdon is an easy transition . Curiously enough , just after writing this record of a chance conversation , I came upon a paragraph in the Standard giving an account of ...
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Página 190 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell — The reason why I cannot tell : But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr.
Página 154 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Página iii - AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Página 262 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 140 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruin'd battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Página 259 - Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven — but don't borrow. Try first begging — I don't mind if it's really needful — stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay for ! " And of all manner of debtors pious people building churches they can't pay for, are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges — or in a sandpit — or a coalhole — first ? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built, iron churches are the damnablest to me.
Página 87 - Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown, It must, or we shall rue it, We have a vision of our own, Ah ! why should we undo it...
Página 154 - Give me the clear blue sky over my head and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy.
Página 202 - My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Página 259 - I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is " Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven, — but don't borrow. Try first begging, — I don't mind, if it's really needful, stealing! But don't buy things you can't pay for!