The Ladies' CompanionBradbury and Evans, 1861 |
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Page 124
... Kirkbridge people could have told you that before they got to the Parsonage gate , for a group of children was going along the footpath from the village , hunting amid the road - side dock - leaves for violets , shouting and screaming ...
... Kirkbridge people could have told you that before they got to the Parsonage gate , for a group of children was going along the footpath from the village , hunting amid the road - side dock - leaves for violets , shouting and screaming ...
Page 125
... Kirkbridge , and bemoaned themselves as being straight , long and very thin ; what some people placed in the very wilderness of the North receive as an evidence of a reflective mind ; but Riding , amid a multitude of pigheaded pea- in ...
... Kirkbridge , and bemoaned themselves as being straight , long and very thin ; what some people placed in the very wilderness of the North receive as an evidence of a reflective mind ; but Riding , amid a multitude of pigheaded pea- in ...
Page 127
... Kirkbridge school for the purpose of legs under the new benches ; the desks had making an examination into the progress of the but a few inkstains , and what names are rudely children . carved on their surface might be exactly dated to ...
... Kirkbridge school for the purpose of legs under the new benches ; the desks had making an examination into the progress of the but a few inkstains , and what names are rudely children . carved on their surface might be exactly dated to ...
Page 128
... Kirkbridge people are at once obstinate , unaccommodating , and saving of self , and that cut across instead of keeping to the road saves three hundred paces !! Mrs. Cattie has reached the front door , and rung the bell ; now she is ...
... Kirkbridge people are at once obstinate , unaccommodating , and saving of self , and that cut across instead of keeping to the road saves three hundred paces !! Mrs. Cattie has reached the front door , and rung the bell ; now she is ...
Page 132
... Kirkbridge is said to have made a great stride towards civilization ; but , for all that , its grand- dames of thirty years ago would have blushed to produce such hemming and seams as the school - girls now passed up for Mrs ...
... Kirkbridge is said to have made a great stride towards civilization ; but , for all that , its grand- dames of thirty years ago would have blushed to produce such hemming and seams as the school - girls now passed up for Mrs ...
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Page 143 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Page 142 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 143 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 273 - Marner's face and figure shrank and bent themselves into a constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life, so that he produced the same sort of impression as a handle or a crooked tube, which has no meaning standing apart.
Page 210 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Page 159 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 150 - ... of supplicating terror, as perfectly overcame me. I immediately untied it, and restored it to life and liberty. The agonies of a prisoner at the stake, while the fire and instruments of...
Page 180 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Page 234 - They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the great wave that echoes round the world...
Page 245 - We are glad, the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present, and your pains, we thank you for : When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set. Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard...