Once and for ever, or, Passages in the life of the curate of Danbury, by the author of 'No appeal'.1874 |
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... should be early in March , so that he went away in a state of rapturous content . " My darling , " he said , after many happy good - byes , " winter may be very 23 good for the Curate of Danbury , as you wickedly 16 Once and for Ever .
... should be early in March , so that he went away in a state of rapturous content . " My darling , " he said , after many happy good - byes , " winter may be very 23 good for the Curate of Danbury , as you wickedly 16 Once and for Ever .
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... Plymridge . " It is all for you , dearest , " she whis- pered , " all this honour , and respect , and affection , and not for the poor friendless girl Mary Hastings . " " Your own , my darling , only your own 20 Once and for Ever .
... Plymridge . " It is all for you , dearest , " she whis- pered , " all this honour , and respect , and affection , and not for the poor friendless girl Mary Hastings . " " Your own , my darling , only your own 20 Once and for Ever .
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Danbury. " Your own , my darling , only your own ; and only so far mine , because you are mine , my wife now , -a part of myself . " To describe a wedding - breakfast is to deal with yesterday's champagne . The feast was as thoroughly ...
Danbury. " Your own , my darling , only your own ; and only so far mine , because you are mine , my wife now , -a part of myself . " To describe a wedding - breakfast is to deal with yesterday's champagne . The feast was as thoroughly ...
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... doubt my lass was true ? So I kissed my darling once again , And sailed away across the main . But soon there came another ship Unto the maid of ruddy lip ; And she that made my heart rejoice Soon listened to Summer . 31.
... doubt my lass was true ? So I kissed my darling once again , And sailed away across the main . But soon there came another ship Unto the maid of ruddy lip ; And she that made my heart rejoice Soon listened to Summer . 31.
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... darling once again , And sailed away across the main . We two , each thought the prize was won , And , when the next good trip was done , To make that bonny lass his wife , His own through all the storms of life . But when we crossed ...
... darling once again , And sailed away across the main . We two , each thought the prize was won , And , when the next good trip was done , To make that bonny lass his wife , His own through all the storms of life . But when we crossed ...
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Page 146 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Page 80 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Page 180 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 82 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Page 115 - Out, alas! she's cold; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Page 111 - Luckily it is not all sunshine for any of us, more than it is always a dead calm at sea, without a wave or a ripple. A pretty state of stagnation the world would be in before the end of a month if everything settled down into unbroken smoothness and quiet, and we all took to lying on our backs...
Page 175 - What's gone and what's past help should be past grief" (Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2).
Page 178 - You cannot get rid of trouble if you traverse the face of the earth ; but by steady perseverance you may learn to bear it bravely, and live it down. What you may have lost can never be replaced, but there is yet a whole chapter in your life to be lived, and you must live this ; if you fail, try again. Never say or allow it to be said, without correcting the speaker, " If I had been this, that, or the other, matters would have been different.
Page 173 - Danbury with a lighter heart than he had known for many a long day.