The vicar of Wakefield. (Marcus Ward's educ. lit.).1883 |
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... married and brought up a large family did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population . From this motive I had scarcely taken orders a year , before I began to think seriously of matrimony , and chose my wife ...
... married and brought up a large family did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population . From this motive I had scarcely taken orders a year , before I began to think seriously of matrimony , and chose my wife ...
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... married men to temperance , and the bachelors to matrimony ; so that in a few years it was a common saying , that there were three strange wants at Wake- field — a parson wanting pride , young men wanting wives , and alehouses wanting ...
... married men to temperance , and the bachelors to matrimony ; so that in a few years it was a common saying , that there were three strange wants at Wake- field — a parson wanting pride , young men wanting wives , and alehouses wanting ...
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... marriage so often recom- mended , that my eldest son , just upon leaving college , fixed his affections upon the daughter of a neighbouring clergyman , who was a dignitary in the Church , and in circumstances to give her a large fortune ...
... marriage so often recom- mended , that my eldest son , just upon leaving college , fixed his affections upon the daughter of a neighbouring clergyman , who was a dignitary in the Church , and in circumstances to give her a large fortune ...
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... marry great fortunes , and her children get none . As this last argument was directed to me , I protested I could see no reason for it neither ; nor why Mr. Simpkins got the ten thousand pound prize in the lottery , and we sat down with ...
... marry great fortunes , and her children get none . As this last argument was directed to me , I protested I could see no reason for it neither ; nor why Mr. Simpkins got the ten thousand pound prize in the lottery , and we sat down with ...
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... As Mr. Burchell had hinted to us , the day before , that he was making some proposals of marriage to Miss Wilmot , my son George's former mistress , this a good deal damped the heartiness of his reception : but accident , in.
... As Mr. Burchell had hinted to us , the day before , that he was making some proposals of marriage to Miss Wilmot , my son George's former mistress , this a good deal damped the heartiness of his reception : but accident , in.
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Страница 53 - For still I tried each fickle art, Importunate and vain; And, while his passion touch'd my heart, I triumph'd in his pain: "Till, quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride; And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died.
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Страница 117 - The wond'ring neighbours ran. And swore the dog had lost his wits. To bite so good a man. The wound it seemed both sore and sad To every Christian eye; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die. But soon a wonder came to light, That showed the rogues they lied : The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
Страница 53 - No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true : The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Страница 3 - She could read any English book without much spelling ; but for pickling, preserving, and cookery, none could excel her. She prided herself also upon being an excellent contriver in housekeeping, though I could never find that we grew richer with all her contrivances.
Страница 25 - Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green.