Leisure hours in town, by the author of The recreations of a country parsonParker Son and Bourn West Strand, 1862 - 382 pages |
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... hear the wind moaning as if there were to be a stormy night . But the fire is blazing , and the curtains are drawn : and here , in this little room , once the study of a wit and a poet , things are almost as quiet as if it were miles ...
... hear the wind moaning as if there were to be a stormy night . But the fire is blazing , and the curtains are drawn : and here , in this little room , once the study of a wit and a poet , things are almost as quiet as if it were miles ...
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... hear it said , cry up the beauties of the mind . It may be added , that ugly people possess a very large proportion of those beauties . And a great deal of the best intellectual work is done by men who are physically screws ; by men who ...
... hear it said , cry up the beauties of the mind . It may be added , that ugly people possess a very large proportion of those beauties . And a great deal of the best intellectual work is done by men who are physically screws ; by men who ...
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... hear the centre - bit at work boring through the window- shutters downstairs . A very clever woman once told me , that for a year she yielded so much to the fear that she had left a spark behind her in any room into which she had gone ...
... hear the centre - bit at work boring through the window- shutters downstairs . A very clever woman once told me , that for a year she yielded so much to the fear that she had left a spark behind her in any room into which she had gone ...
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... hear people talk of a solitary life , the picture called up before me is that of a young man who has always lived as one of a house- hold considerable in numbers , who gets a living in the Church , and who , having no sister to keep ...
... hear people talk of a solitary life , the picture called up before me is that of a young man who has always lived as one of a house- hold considerable in numbers , who gets a living in the Church , and who , having no sister to keep ...
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... hear the birds , which , walking with a sympathetic companion , you would never have noticed . You feel the whole spirit of the scene , whether cheerful or gloomy , gently pervading you , and sinking into your heart . I do not know how ...
... hear the birds , which , walking with a sympathetic companion , you would never have noticed . You feel the whole spirit of the scene , whether cheerful or gloomy , gently pervading you , and sinking into your heart . I do not know how ...
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Page 77 - 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.
Page 78 - Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper and then a silence, Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall, By three doors left unguarded, They enter my castle wall. They climb up into my turret, O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
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Page 78 - O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine! Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all!