Oakwood Hall: A Novel; Including a Description of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and a Part of South Wales, Հատոր 1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1819
 

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Էջ 159 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Էջ 25 - you keep slave, slave, and let your daughter sit reading the Pope, and the Four Seasons, and the Young Night Thoughts, when she ought to be making a pudding, or sweeping up the house!1 — ' Why,' says she,
Էջ 177 - I've clerks at home that can go on without me; but every man should mind his business; or 'his business won't mind him. I did not think of staying so long ; and if any body had told me of it, I should have expected to be a fish out of water. But you're all so kind and so agreeable, that, somehow or other, the time has slipped away; but I mean to go tomorrow.
Էջ 207 - The lower reach of the lake approaches the open country ; and its boundaries are not so grand on one' side, or so romantic on the other. From the end of Ullswater we accompanied its outlet, the river Emont, through a rich country of corn and grass, with a chain of mountains in the back ground.
Էջ 195 - ... of the lower. Within, is a choir, with twenty-six stalls. By some odd chance, or combination of ideas, these are ornamented with vines and bunches of grapes, which are also twining round, and hanging down the pillars. There wanted only the figure of Bacchus to make me determine what deity was worshipped at Cartmel.
Էջ 185 - Millichamp started, and cast on him a look of the utmost contempt : and it was not till several books had been taken down, that he was convinced they were real paper and print, and laughed at his own credulity. He now forgets . to eat, in earnest, as my brother predicted in jest. The hours pass away unperceived, when he is in the library ; and, as our maxim of " Every man in his humour" extends to our visitor, we never summon him to dinner, and have several times dined without him.

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