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... followed a few men and women , with wood and baskets balanced . on their heads ; and presently we were among the houses and cottages on the outskirts of the city ; and , descending a short hill , we came once more into the forlorn ...
... followed a few men and women , with wood and baskets balanced . on their heads ; and presently we were among the houses and cottages on the outskirts of the city ; and , descending a short hill , we came once more into the forlorn ...
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... followed , perspiring , hallooing to some of- fender in front , patronizing some inoffensive be- ing in the crowd , or petrifying turbulent boys . When it returned , he was first among the dea- lers - out of meat , and the distributers ...
... followed , perspiring , hallooing to some of- fender in front , patronizing some inoffensive be- ing in the crowd , or petrifying turbulent boys . When it returned , he was first among the dea- lers - out of meat , and the distributers ...
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... followed with measured steps , and with as much dignity and grace as were compatible , either with scanty petticoats , strained tight at every stride , or with an as- sumed carelessness of manner , which too plainly indicated his want ...
... followed with measured steps , and with as much dignity and grace as were compatible , either with scanty petticoats , strained tight at every stride , or with an as- sumed carelessness of manner , which too plainly indicated his want ...
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... followed by men and children . We had heard a good deal of the extreme poverty of Corvo , and if poverty means the want of shoes , and mirrors , and oranges , and cane - bottomed chairs , certainly the people can boast of none of these ...
... followed by men and children . We had heard a good deal of the extreme poverty of Corvo , and if poverty means the want of shoes , and mirrors , and oranges , and cane - bottomed chairs , certainly the people can boast of none of these ...
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... followed by a relay to relieve them when tired : your feet dangle down on one side , in much discomfort , while you cling round the pole , and lean back- wards in the cloth . Some lie their length along the cloth on their back , and say ...
... followed by a relay to relieve them when tired : your feet dangle down on one side , in much discomfort , while you cling round the pole , and lean back- wards in the cloth . Some lie their length along the cloth on their back , and say ...
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Page 304 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 304 - A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet...
Page 135 - I chanced to espy Among the mountains ; never one like this ; So lonesome, and so perfectly secure; Not melancholy ; no, for it is green, And bright, and fertile, furnished in itself With the few needful things that life requires. In rugged arms how softly does it lie, How tenderly protected...
Page 197 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Page 225 - The food of hope Is meditated action ; robbed of this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air of futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life.
Page 15 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles ; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.
Page 263 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 193 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 341 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.