Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery, Volume 2George Bell, 1880 |
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Aberleigh admiral amongst Andrew Shore Beau beautiful Berkshire better birds bright called CHARADE charming child Clewer colour comfort Conway cottage cousin creature cricket daughter dear delight eyes fair fair lady fancy Fanny farmer father favourite flowers Fram garden gentle gentleman geraniums girl green half hand happy Hatherden heard heart Helen Hetta honour Jane kind lady laughing Laurette Letty little Walter lived look lover Major Barton married Mary Master Miss mistress mole-catcher morning mother neighbour never parish party person Philip Owen play pleasant Pompey poor pretty rich Richard Mayne Rose Rosedale round Sam Page Sandleford scene Schiedam seemed side sister smile sort sure Susan Wheeler sweet syllabub talk tall thee thing thou thought trees turned village walk whilst whole wife woman word young
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Page 391 - It is the very emblem of a maid : For when the west wind courts her gently, How modestly she blows, and paints the sun With her chaste blushes ! when the north, comes near her, Rude and impatient, then, like chastity, She locks her beauties in her bud again, And leaves him to base briars.
Page 494 - Quietly as a sleeping Infant's breath, Send up cold waters to the Traveller With soft and even Pulse ! Nor ever cease Yon tiny Cone of Sand its soundless Dance, Which at the Bottom, like a Fairy's Page, As merry and no taller, dances still, Nor wrinkles the smooth Surface of the Fount. Here Twilight is and Coolness : here is Moss, A soft Seat, and a deep and ample Shade, Thou may'st toil far and find no second Tree.
Page 290 - The Two Noble Kinsmen. ROSES, THEIR SHARP SPINES BEING GONE ROSES, their sharp spines being gone, Not royal in their smells alone, But in their hue; Maiden pinks, of odour faint, Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true; Primrose, firstborn child of Ver; Merry springtime's harbinger, With her bells dim; Oxlips in their cradles growing, Marigolds on deathbeds blowing, Larks'-heels trim.
Page 101 - She was a middle-aged woman, with sons and daughters already settled in life, and must in her youth have been exceedingly lovely ; indeed, in spite of an increase of size, which had greatly injured her figure, she might still be deemed a model of matronly beauty. Her face was in the highest degree soft, feminine, and delicate, with an extreme purity and fairness of complexion ; dove-like eyes, a gentle smile, and a general complacency and benevolence of aspect, such as I have rarely seen equalled....
Page 259 - Patty a night's misery, to be compensated by a lifetime of happiness. Jane was almost as glad to lose a lover as her sister was to regain one. Charles is gone home to his father's to make preparations for his bride; Archibald has taken a great nursery garden, and there is some talk in Aberleigh that the marriage of the two sisters is to be celebrated on the same day.
Page 253 - Dromios. Nearly of an age, (I believe that at this moment both are turned of nineteen, and neither have reached twenty) exactly of a stature, (so high that Frederick would have coveted them for wives for his tall regiment) — with hazel eyes, large mouths, full lips, white teeth, brown hair, clear healthy complexions, and that sort of nose which is neither Grecian nor Roman, nor aquiline, nor le petit nez...
Page 88 - ... village, predisposed, out of sheer contradiction, to fall in love with the first young woman who should come in his way ; and he did fall in love accordingly. Mary Hay, the object of his ill-fated passion, was the daughter of the respectable mistress of a small endowed school at the other side of the parish. She was a delicate, interesting creature, with a slight, drooping figure, and a fair, downcast face, like a snow-drop, forming such a contrast with her gay and gallant wooer, as Love, in...
Page 419 - ... and safe. So accomplished, both in what he was and in what he was not, our lawyer, at the time of which we write, had been for many years the oracle of the country gentlemen, held all public offices not inconsistent with each other, which their patronage could bestow, and in the shape of stewardships, trusts, and agencies, managed half the landed estates in the county. He was even admitted into visiting intercourse, on a footing of equality very uncommon in the aristocratic circles of country...
Page 461 - For home-sick fancy kindles with the beam That on thy lucid bosom coyly plays, And glides delighted through thy crystal ways, Till on her eye those wave-fed poplars gleam Beneath whose shade her first...
Page 307 - ... the soldiery, to the shore. Upon seeing the five little boats, General Prescott, who knew the position of the British shipping, appeared much confused, and, turning to Major Barton, inquired if he commanded the party. On being informed that he did, he expressed a hope that no personal injury was intended him ; and Major Barton assured the general of his protection, while he remained under his control. " The general had travelled from head-quarters to the shore in his waistcoat, small-clothes,...