Two Love Stories: From the Doctor, EtcBrimley, Johnson & Ince Limited, 1904 - 131 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Bacon Beaumont and Fletcher beautiful Ben Jonson better Bishop blessing brook brought called cap and bells cards cause character child childhood chimney Christian church circumstances cottage course daughter dear death Deborah disease Doctor Doncaster doth duty earth enter evil eyes father feeling felt fox-hunter friends Haggy hand happiness heard heart honour hope horse inoculation judgment kind King of Prussia knew lady Leonard lived looked Lord LOVE STORIES Margaret marriage marry Melicent ment mind Miss Trewbody natural never night cap Nobs occasion old George orphan Palmer parish perhaps person pleased pleasure poor practised Preacher preaching Puritans Quakers reader relations remarkable remembered replied respect ROBERT SOUTHEY says sermons sometimes stones sure temper things thou thought tion town Urim and Thummim Vanity voice wear a cap West Riding wife William Dove wise wish woman youth Zani
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 65 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Seite 27 - Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge. If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching, folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Seite 16 - But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Seite 112 - Our best intentions, even when they have been most prudentially formed, fail often in their issue. I meant to train up Deborah in the way she should go, by fitting her for that state of life in which it had pleased God to place her, so that she might have made a good wife for some honest man in the humbler walks of life, and have been happy with him.
Seite 89 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. And by-and-by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Seite 4 - ... that the King of Prussia was dead, such a report having arrived when the great Frederick was in the noonday of his glory. Old Mary lifted up her great slow eyes at the news, and fixing them in the fulness of vacancy upon her informant, replied,
Seite 59 - THE WORLD LOVE built a stately house ; where Fortune came ; And spinning fancies she was heard to say, That her fine cobwebs did support the frame, Whereas they were supported by the same : But Wisdom quickly swept them all away. Then Pleasure came, who, liking not the fashion, Began to make balconies...
Seite 5 - Looke backe, who list, unto the former ages, And call to count what is of them become : Where be those learned wits and antique Sages, Which of all wisedome knew the perfect somme ? Where those great warriors, which did overcome The world with conquest of their might and maine, And made one meare of th...
Seite 12 - It had a hedge of gooseberry-bushes, a few appletrees, pot-herbs in abundance, onions, cabbages, turnips and carrots ; potatoes had hardly yet found their way into these remote parts, and in a sheltered spot under the crag, open to the south, were six beehives which made the family perfectly inde12 pendent of West India produce. Tea was in those days as little known as potatoes, and for all other things honey supplied the place of sugar.
Seite 52 - Twill be but fair to lean upon their fames ; For they are strong supporters : but, till then, The greatest are but growing gentlemen.