Among Strangers: an AutobiographySmith, Elder & Company, 1870 - 302 pages |
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... Hugh Williams - both him and his shop , although it never has anything in it I want , and I should be sorry to see him fall a victim to widow Roberts . He reads the papers , and is great upon progress , and has such a capability for ...
... Hugh Williams - both him and his shop , although it never has anything in it I want , and I should be sorry to see him fall a victim to widow Roberts . He reads the papers , and is great upon progress , and has such a capability for ...
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... Hugh Williams ' side of the question , and to think , as he does , that tourists are an institution for the periodical benefit and amusement of the village , from the improvement in my spirits , which begins with the first sight of them ...
... Hugh Williams ' side of the question , and to think , as he does , that tourists are an institution for the periodical benefit and amusement of the village , from the improvement in my spirits , which begins with the first sight of them ...
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... Hugh Williams says " in my deed ; " and when a Welshman or a Welshwoman says that , you may believe it is truth they are telling you . They never say anything of the sort to Margaret : she will not go to see them unless they are ill ...
... Hugh Williams says " in my deed ; " and when a Welshman or a Welshwoman says that , you may believe it is truth they are telling you . They never say anything of the sort to Margaret : she will not go to see them unless they are ill ...
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... Hugh , there you are , slinking up to the canny widow's again . I can see you , with your newspaper in your hand . As if widow Roberts cared one least little bit in the world for the racy , radical , spiteful , blustering articles which ...
... Hugh , there you are , slinking up to the canny widow's again . I can see you , with your newspaper in your hand . As if widow Roberts cared one least little bit in the world for the racy , radical , spiteful , blustering articles which ...
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... Hugh Williams so fast here in Glyn Melys , when he is clever enough to get on in the world ? Who can that be come to the widow's door ? What a pretty girl , and how Hugh is brighten- ing up ! I do believe he has other views than the ...
... Hugh Williams so fast here in Glyn Melys , when he is clever enough to get on in the world ? Who can that be come to the widow's door ? What a pretty girl , and how Hugh is brighten- ing up ! I do believe he has other views than the ...
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Page 264 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 101 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning...
Page 31 - Two children in two neighbour villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ; Two strangers meeting at a festival ; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall ; Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease ; Two graves...
Page 167 - The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers.
Page 140 - Come back, come back ; and whither back or why ? To fan quenched hopes, forsaken schemes to try; Walk the old fields ; pace the familiar street ; Dream with the idlers, with the bards compete. Come back, come back. Come back, come back...
Page 84 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
Page 48 - What's Montague? it is nor hand , nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man.
Page 177 - Oh dream of joy! is this indeed The lighthouse top I see? Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray— 'O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
Page 74 - Blow, ye winds ! lift me with you ! I come to the wild. Fold closely, O Nature! Thine arms round thy child. To thee only God granted A heart ever new — To all always open, To all always true.
Page 242 - Yet can it not be then denied, It is as certain as thy creed, Thy great unhap thou canst not hide ; Unhappy then ! why art thou not dead? ' Unhappy ; but no wretch therefore ! For hap doth come again, and go, For which I keep myself in store ; Since unhap cannot kill me so.