The Country Home, Volume 6Sphere and Tatler, 1911 |
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Brani popolari
Pagina 192 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Pagina 303 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Pagina 156 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care : His presence shall my wants supply, A.nd guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 101 - Ha'. Sir Walter Scott, speaking of Naworth, saye — " This gothic edifice was, in former times, one of those extensive baronial seats which marked the splendour of our ancient nobles, before they exchanged the hospitable magnificence of a life spent among a numerous tenantry for the uncertain honours of court attendance, and the equivocal rewards of ministerial (1) Ma; 18, 1844.
Pagina 108 - Irthington, ruling the western marches by the sword from the middle of the thirteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century, and enjoying many a field day against the Scots.
Pagina 228 - thirteen poor men, feeble and so reduced in strength that they can hardly or with difficulty support themselves without another's aid...
Pagina 104 - Greystoko, the heiress of his superior lord, and who, as the king's ward, was then in the custody of Henry Clifford, earl of Cumberland, who probably himself intended to marry...
Pagina 187 - Strong walls, rich porches, princelie pallaces, Large streetes, brave houses, sacred sepulchers, Sure gates, sweete gardens, stately galleries, Wrought with faire pillours, and fine imageries, All those (O pitie) now are turned to dust, And overgrowen with blacke oblivions rust. (11. 92-98) Verulam is gone, but its memory lives thanks to the labors of the historian Camden, "the nourice of antiquitie.
Pagina 274 - As soon as the seedlings are large enough to handle they should be pricked out into small pots filled with Potting Compost.
Pagina 106 - This poor boy was not only compelled to witness this diabolically cruel sight, but he was also deprived of title, dignity and estate, and reduced to the condition described by his father when committing him before his death to the care of his elder brother, Philip, Earl of Arundel, as "having nothing to feed the cormorants with.