Over Fen and WoldMacmillan and Company, limited, 1898 - 447 páginas |
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... walls and lichen - laden roof being backed by rook - haunted ancestral elms ; the ancient home , with its quaint , old - fashioned garden and reed - grown moat encircling it , seemed , when we first came unexpectedly thereon , more like ...
... walls and lichen - laden roof being backed by rook - haunted ancestral elms ; the ancient home , with its quaint , old - fashioned garden and reed - grown moat encircling it , seemed , when we first came unexpectedly thereon , more like ...
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... wall of the nave . Having duly inspected this , our self - appointed guide suddenly exclaimed , still maintaining her amusing didactic manner , " He'd much better have gone to bed and slept like a good Christian than have sit up o ...
... wall of the nave . Having duly inspected this , our self - appointed guide suddenly exclaimed , still maintaining her amusing didactic manner , " He'd much better have gone to bed and slept like a good Christian than have sit up o ...
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... walls and every tile on the roofs . " Now , that's what I call a proper kind of picture , -not but that yours is very nice for hand - work " ! This is a very fair specimen of the criticisms that the long - enduring landscape painter has ...
... walls and every tile on the roofs . " Now , that's what I call a proper kind of picture , -not but that yours is very nice for hand - work " ! This is a very fair specimen of the criticisms that the long - enduring landscape painter has ...
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... walls were freshly set , its sculptures new , and traceries recently worked , as it looks now . No building , however gracefully designed , can ever attain the perfection of its beauty till Time has placed his finishing touches thereon ...
... walls were freshly set , its sculptures new , and traceries recently worked , as it looks now . No building , however gracefully designed , can ever attain the perfection of its beauty till Time has placed his finishing touches thereon ...
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... wall a graceful archway gave entrance to the homes . Whilst we were admiring this pleasing specimen of old - time work , one of the inmates came out and invited us inside ; but the interior , upon inspection , did not attract us as the ...
... wall a graceful archway gave entrance to the homes . Whilst we were admiring this pleasing specimen of old - time work , one of the inmates came out and invited us inside ; but the interior , upon inspection , did not attract us as the ...
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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!