Reuben Medlicott; Or, The Coming ManD. Appleton and Company, 1852 - 443 pages |
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... probably not have befallen him , had either the Vicar , or his wife ruled the roast , for then the ideas of one or the other would have prevailed , and something like a system , right or wrong , would have been the result ; but the ...
... probably not have befallen him , had either the Vicar , or his wife ruled the roast , for then the ideas of one or the other would have prevailed , and something like a system , right or wrong , would have been the result ; but the ...
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... probably have hated books of all kinds , and dis- liked all his teachers in turn ; but his love of learning escaped this very common danger . He was of so teachable and ductile a disposition that he profited to some extent by all the ...
... probably have hated books of all kinds , and dis- liked all his teachers in turn ; but his love of learning escaped this very common danger . He was of so teachable and ductile a disposition that he profited to some extent by all the ...
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... probably the effects of the healthy , but inactive life he led — a life in which it was hard to say whether his pastoral labours , his classical studies , or his gardening relaxations , were the most or the least fatiguing . Reuben , at ...
... probably the effects of the healthy , but inactive life he led — a life in which it was hard to say whether his pastoral labours , his classical studies , or his gardening relaxations , were the most or the least fatiguing . Reuben , at ...
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... probably have select- ed for Reuben , had they been left to themselves . It was not as expensive as the great seminaries , such as Eton and Winchester ; the Dean had a living within ten miles of Hereford , which he had latterly favoured ...
... probably have select- ed for Reuben , had they been left to themselves . It was not as expensive as the great seminaries , such as Eton and Winchester ; the Dean had a living within ten miles of Hereford , which he had latterly favoured ...
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... probably be civil and perhaps useful to Reuben , for the sake of the Dean . The expense , however , was a grave consideration , for the Vicar's mode of living was of the simplest , and there was no very large margin for retrenchment ...
... probably be civil and perhaps useful to Reuben , for the sake of the Dean . The expense , however , was a grave consideration , for the Vicar's mode of living was of the simplest , and there was no very large margin for retrenchment ...
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Page 179 - AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.
Page 443 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 180 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 65 - Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 91 - KEEP doing, always doing; and whatever you do, do it with all your heart, soul and strength. Wishing, dreaming, intending, murmuring, talking, sighing and repining are all idle and profitless employments.
Page 65 - Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge...
Page 279 - Yet all the while be in the wrong. And 'tis remarkable that they Talk most, who have the least to say. Your dainty speakers have the curse, To plead bad causes down to worse : As dames, who native beauty want, Still uglier look, the more they paint.
Page 419 - HOPE ! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure ! Thou captive's freedom, and thou sick man's health ! Thou loser's victory, and thou beggar's wealth ! Thou manna, which from heaven we eat, To every taste a several meat ! Thou. strong retreat ! thou...
Page 69 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 213 - Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.