Pictures of Country Life: And Summer Rambles in Green and Shady PlacesD. Bogue, 1847 - Počet stran: 363 |
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Strana 3
... Nature , rural cemeteries possess many beauties , which are lost upon such as care not for the lavish hand , that decks this green and flowery world . Such scenes to us are studded " thick as stars , " with sweet and sorrowful ...
... Nature , rural cemeteries possess many beauties , which are lost upon such as care not for the lavish hand , that decks this green and flowery world . Such scenes to us are studded " thick as stars , " with sweet and sorrowful ...
Strana 4
... nature ; and there is an appear- ance of death in the piled - up houses , as if the inhabitants had only come there to die — to sit at their windows begrudging every inch of ground that was occupied by another . Around the cemetery ...
... nature ; and there is an appear- ance of death in the piled - up houses , as if the inhabitants had only come there to die — to sit at their windows begrudging every inch of ground that was occupied by another . Around the cemetery ...
Strana 13
... nature , as to believe that any one living cares not for the dead , or sets no more store upon the two yards of common earth that covers the remains once dear to others , than he would upon the same space of ground in the wildest wold ...
... nature , as to believe that any one living cares not for the dead , or sets no more store upon the two yards of common earth that covers the remains once dear to others , than he would upon the same space of ground in the wildest wold ...
Strana 18
... nature of the Gods . " Let us have access to the tombs of those whom we know to be great , good , and worthy , that we may have a foretaste of this pleasure . Returning to our subject of rural cemeteries , we marvel to find so little ...
... nature of the Gods . " Let us have access to the tombs of those whom we know to be great , good , and worthy , that we may have a foretaste of this pleasure . Returning to our subject of rural cemeteries , we marvel to find so little ...
Strana 28
... Nature ; and if from their closer communication with these " outward and visible signs , " and wanting that light which time only throws upon the growth of its wonders , they wandered too far into the mazes of superstition , still their ...
... Nature ; and if from their closer communication with these " outward and visible signs , " and wanting that light which time only throws upon the growth of its wonders , they wandered too far into the mazes of superstition , still their ...
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amid amongst ancient beautiful Beckenham beneath beside blow boughs buried Burrows butcher called child cold cottage dark dead death deep earth Eltham Palace eyes face fancy farmer feel fields flowers forest gamekeeper garden gathered gipsy gold grave green grey old ash ground hand hanging head heard heart heaven hedge Heron hill hour Hubert Jael Lady Morton land lane light living look man-trap manor-house Mark Middleton merry merry England miles morning murder neighbouring never night old ash tree once osiers passed Penge Common poacher poor prison river river Trent road ruins Saint Saxby scene seemed seen shadow shadow waved Shakspere sheep sheep-shearing silent Skellingthorpe solemn sound spot stood stretched summer sunshine sweet tell thou thought toll-gate turned village voice walk whilst wife wild wind Winter's Tale woman woods young
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Strana 27 - ... great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Strana 6 - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.
Strana 24 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Strana 101 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade...
Strana 56 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Strana 203 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient pearls unwept; Come and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night: And Titan on the eastern hill Retires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth. Wash, dress, be brief in praying: Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.
Strana 258 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murthers have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the times have been, That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end...
Strana 18 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Strana 266 - He drains the pump, from him the fagot burns ; From him the noisy hogs demand their food ; While at his heels run many a chirping brood, Or down his path in expectation stand, With equal claims upon his strewing hand. Thus wastes the morn, till each with pleasure sees The bustle o'er, and press'd the new-made cheese.
Strana 124 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.