The vicar of WakefieldK. Paul, Trench, 1886 - 308 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... interrupt our intended alliance ; but , on the day before that ap- pointed for the ceremony , we agreed to discuss the subject at large .. It was managed with proper spirit on both sides ; he asserted that I was heterodox ; I retorted ...
... interrupt our intended alliance ; but , on the day before that ap- pointed for the ceremony , we agreed to discuss the subject at large .. It was managed with proper spirit on both sides ; he asserted that I was heterodox ; I retorted ...
Pàgina 38
... interrupted I , " and I shall love you the better for it ; but all this is not neatness , but frippery . These rufflings , and pinkings , and patchings , will only make us hated by all the wives of our neigh- bours . No , my children ...
... interrupted I , " and I shall love you the better for it ; but all this is not neatness , but frippery . These rufflings , and pinkings , and patchings , will only make us hated by all the wives of our neigh- bours . No , my children ...
Pàgina 45
... interruption of a servant from the squire , who , with his compliments , sent us a side of venison , and a promise to dine with us some days after . This well - timed present pleaded more powerfully in his favour than anything I had to ...
... interruption of a servant from the squire , who , with his compliments , sent us a side of venison , and a promise to dine with us some days after . This well - timed present pleaded more powerfully in his favour than anything I had to ...
Pàgina 79
... interrupted she , " all that is very true ; but not what I would be at . I mean , we should go there genteelly . You know the church is two miles off , and I protest I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed ...
... interrupted she , " all that is very true ; but not what I would be at . I mean , we should go there genteelly . You know the church is two miles off , and I protest I don't like to see my daughters trudging up to their pew all blowzed ...
Pàgina 107
... interrupt our conversation : my friend and I discoursed on the various turns of fortune we had met ; the Whistonian controversy , my last pamphlet , the archdeacon's reply , and the hard measure that was dealt me . But our attention was ...
... interrupt our conversation : my friend and I discoursed on the various turns of fortune we had met ; the Whistonian controversy , my last pamphlet , the archdeacon's reply , and the hard measure that was dealt me . But our attention was ...
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acquainted amusement appearance assured baronet Berosus Burchell catgut CHAPTER cheerful child choly comfort continued cried Moses cried my wife cried the squire daughter dear distress eldest favour fortune friendship gaoler gave gentleman girls give going guilt happy heart Heaven honest honour hope horse interrupted Jenkinson knew letter live Livy look madam Manetho manner marriage married melan miseries Miss Wilmot morning mother musical glasses neighbour never night observed Ocellus Lucanus Olivia once opinion pain papa passion perceived perfectly pipe and tabor pleased pleasure poor post-chaise pounds present prison promise rapture received replied resolved rest returned rich Saracens scarcely seemed shagreen Sir William sister soon Sophia stranger sure tell thee things Thornhill Thornhill's thou thought tion town turn VICAR OF WAKEFIELD virtue wretched young lady
Passatges populars
Pàgina 138 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wond'rous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Pàgina 66 - The dew, the blossom on the tree, With charms inconstant shine ; Their charms were his, but woe to me, Their constancy was mine. "For still I tried each fickle art, Importunate and vain ; And while his passion touch'd my heart, I triumph'd in his pain.
Pàgina 96 - You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims; for they are not worth sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Pàgina 61 - Forbear, my son,' the hermit cries, 'To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. 'Here to the houseless child of want, My door is open still ; And tho' my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Pàgina 127 - Venus, and the painter was desired not to be too frugal of his diamonds in her stomacher and hair. Her two little ones were to be as Cupids by her side, while I, in my gown and band, was to present her with my books on the Whistonian controversy. Olivia would be drawn as an Amazon, sitting upon a bank of flowers, dressed in a green Joseph, richly laced with gold, and a whip in her hand. Sophia was to be a shepherdess, with as many sheep as the painter could put in for nothing ; and Moses was to be...
Pàgina 15 - And then she would bid the girls hold up their heads; who, to conceal nothing, were certainly very handsome. Mere outside is so very trifling a circumstance with me, that I should scarce have remembered to mention it, had it not been a general topic of conversation in the country.
Pàgina 34 - THE place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood, consisting of farmers, who tilled their own grounds, and were equal strangers to opulence and poverty. As they had almost all the conveniences of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns or cities in search of superfluity. Remote from the polite, they still retained the primeval simplicity of manners ; and, frugal by habit, they scarce knew that temperance was a virtue.
Pàgina 95 - I'll tell you a good story about that, that will make you split your sides with laughing. — But, as I live, yonder comes Moses, without a horse, and the box at his back.
Pàgina 97 - There, again, you are wrong, my dear," cried I ; " for though they be copper, we will keep them by us, as copper spectacles, you know, are better than nothing.
Pàgina 222 - The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is — to die.