The Recreations of a Country ParsonTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 pages |
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... fancy to him : the newspapers cry him up . Let us hope that you do not look at him with any feeling of envy or bitterness ; but you cannot help looking at him with great interest , he is so like yourself , and at the same time so very ...
... fancy to him : the newspapers cry him up . Let us hope that you do not look at him with any feeling of envy or bitterness ; but you cannot help looking at him with great interest , he is so like yourself , and at the same time so very ...
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... fancy that he deserved to succeed . It would be a des- perately mortifying thing to the majority of mankind , if it were distinctly ascertained that each man gets just what he deserves . The admitted fact that the square man is ...
... fancy that he deserved to succeed . It would be a des- perately mortifying thing to the majority of mankind , if it were distinctly ascertained that each man gets just what he deserves . The admitted fact that the square man is ...
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... fancy that their merit is equal to their success ; and that by as much as they are better off than other men , they are better than other men ? Very likely they do . It is all in human nature . And I suppose the times have been in which ...
... fancy that their merit is equal to their success ; and that by as much as they are better off than other men , they are better than other men ? Very likely they do . It is all in human nature . And I suppose the times have been in which ...
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... fancy that they are to surpass Melvill or Chalmers ! No doubt , reader , you have sometimes come out of a church , where you had heard a preacher aiming at the most ambitious eloquence , who evidently had not the slightest vocation that ...
... fancy that they are to surpass Melvill or Chalmers ! No doubt , reader , you have sometimes come out of a church , where you had heard a preacher aiming at the most ambitious eloquence , who evidently had not the slightest vocation that ...
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... many to look back on the fancies of youth , which experience has so- bered down . When you go back , my reader , to the village where you were brought up , don't you remember how you used to fancy that when you were a AND SUCCESS . 45.
... many to look back on the fancies of youth , which experience has so- bered down . When you go back , my reader , to the village where you were brought up , don't you remember how you used to fancy that when you were a AND SUCCESS . 45.
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Page 224 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 126 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 222 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 332 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too /far.
Page 150 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 120 - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 151 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 119 - P. Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there...
Page 118 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY; His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page 103 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.