An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1886 - Great Britain |
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... talking friend ; and I called to mind that one of the last heronries in Shropshire was in the lofty woods of Linley , the seat of Robert More , Esq . , who kept it up till his death in 1780 . This is a literal fact . When I was a boy an ...
... talking friend ; and I called to mind that one of the last heronries in Shropshire was in the lofty woods of Linley , the seat of Robert More , Esq . , who kept it up till his death in 1780 . This is a literal fact . When I was a boy an ...
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... conversation overbear ; My tongue within my lips I rein , For who talks much , talks much in vain . • Ibid . Shepherd ... Talking Friend - and I strove to give him the best attention my drow- siness would admit of ' I can profitably call ...
... conversation overbear ; My tongue within my lips I rein , For who talks much , talks much in vain . • Ibid . Shepherd ... Talking Friend - and I strove to give him the best attention my drow- siness would admit of ' I can profitably call ...
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... Talking Friend communicated to me . Memory fails me , or I might have recorded others ; but , like these , they would have been a heterogeneous mixture , for , like an old friend of mine , made up of flesh and blood - body , soul , and ...
... Talking Friend communicated to me . Memory fails me , or I might have recorded others ; but , like these , they would have been a heterogeneous mixture , for , like an old friend of mine , made up of flesh and blood - body , soul , and ...
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... talking friend speak of the introduction of Christianity by St. Augus- tine as doubtful or even more . Anyone who will take the trouble to turn to the Saxon Chronicle under A.D. 596 will find these words : This year Pope Gregory sent ...
... talking friend speak of the introduction of Christianity by St. Augus- tine as doubtful or even more . Anyone who will take the trouble to turn to the Saxon Chronicle under A.D. 596 will find these words : This year Pope Gregory sent ...
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... Talking Friend : ' Whilst we stood firm for the most part before the blast , even when it piped its wildest from Habberley Hole and the bluffs of Pontesford Hill , there are many comers and goers , and the district often changes its ...
... Talking Friend : ' Whilst we stood firm for the most part before the blast , even when it piped its wildest from Habberley Hole and the bluffs of Pontesford Hill , there are many comers and goers , and the district often changes its ...
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Page 52 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 23 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page 259 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 24 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 259 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Page 36 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 36 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Page 44 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering,
Page 150 - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing. Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 45 - And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.