The Vicar of Wakefield: A TaleB. B. Hopkins, and Company, 1807 - 302 страница |
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... thought convenient to fix a day for the nuptials of the young couple , who seemed earnestly to desire it . During the preparations for the wedding , I need not describe the busy importance of my wife , nor the sly looks of my daughters ...
... thought convenient to fix a day for the nuptials of the young couple , who seemed earnestly to desire it . During the preparations for the wedding , I need not describe the busy importance of my wife , nor the sly looks of my daughters ...
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... thought not to have left a shilling in the pound . I was unwilling to shock you , in the family , with the account , till after the wedding ; but now it may serve to moderate your warmth in the ar- gument : for I suppose your own ...
... thought not to have left a shilling in the pound . I was unwilling to shock you , in the family , with the account , till after the wedding ; but now it may serve to moderate your warmth in the ar- gument : for I suppose your own ...
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... During this interval , my thoughts were employed on some future means of supporting them ; and at last a small cure of fifteen pounds a year , was offered C me in a distant neighbourhood , where I could still CHAPTER III. ...
... During this interval , my thoughts were employed on some future means of supporting them ; and at last a small cure of fifteen pounds a year , was offered C me in a distant neighbourhood , where I could still CHAPTER III. ...
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... thoughts were thus employed , the hostess entered the room , . to inform her husband , that the strange gentleman , who had been two days in the house , wanted mo- ney , and could not satisfy them for his reckoning : " Want money ...
... thoughts were thus employed , the hostess entered the room , . to inform her husband , that the strange gentleman , who had been two days in the house , wanted mo- ney , and could not satisfy them for his reckoning : " Want money ...
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... thought fit to keep up some mecha- nical forms of good breeding , without which freedom ever destroys friendship ) we all bent in gratitude to that Being who gave us another day . This duty being performed , my son and I went to pursue ...
... thought fit to keep up some mecha- nical forms of good breeding , without which freedom ever destroys friendship ) we all bent in gratitude to that Being who gave us another day . This duty being performed , my son and I went to pursue ...
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Страница 54 - No flocks, that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn ; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. " Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earthborn cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Страница 59 - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault. And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. " And there, forlorn, despairing, hid. Til lay me down and die ; Twas so for me that Edwin did. And so for him will I.
Страница 53 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Страница 57 - But let a maid thy pity share, Whom love has taught to stray ; Who seeks for rest, but finds despair Companion of her way.
Страница 90 - you are wrong : he should not have known them at all." " Marry, hang the idiot !" returned she, " to bring me such stuff! if I had them, I would throw them in the fire." " There again you are wrong, my dear...
Страница 209 - WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Страница 130 - And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends ; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man.
Страница 4 - As we lived near the road, we often had the traveller or stranger visit us to taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it.
Страница 6 - Germany, while other courtiers came with their treasures, brought his thirty-two childreni and presented them to his sovereign, as the most valuable offering he had to bestow. In this manner, though I had but six, I considered them as a very valuable present made to my country, and, consequently, looked upon it as my debtor.
Страница 119 - Venus, and the painter was desired not to be too frugal of his diamonds in her stomacher and hair. Her two little ones were to be as Cupids by her side, while I, in my gown and band, was to present her with my books on the Whistonian controversy.