Saddle and Sirloin: Or, English Farm and Sporting WorthiesVinton and Company, limited, 1870 - 471 頁 |
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第 302 頁 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
第 120 頁 - I wandered through the lofty halls Trod by the Percys of old fame, And traced upon the chapel walls Each high, heroic name, From him who once his standard set Where now, o'er mosque and minaret, Glitter the Sultan's crescent moons; To him who, when a younger son, Fought for King George at Lexington A major of dragoons.
第 120 頁 - And this, alas ! its market day, And beasts and borderers throng the way; Oxen and bleating lambs in lots, Northumbrian boors and plaided Scots, Men in the coal and cattle line; From Teviot's bard and hero land, From royal Berwick's beach of sand, From Wooller, Morpeth, Hexham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
第 452 頁 - Did any seer of ancient time forebode This mighty engine, which we daily see Accepting our full harvests, like a god, With clouds about his shoulders, — it might be Some poet-husbandman, some lord of verse, Old Hesiod, or the wizard Mantuan Who catalogued in rich hexameters The Rake, the Roller, and the mystic Van...
第 291 頁 - ... them ; but that does not signify to me. My plan is, to go into a china-shop and bid them show me every plate they have which does not cost more than half-a-crown ; you see the result. I think breakfasts so pleasant because no one is conceited before one o'clock.
第 304 頁 - The first thing which strikes us in this extraordinary chronicle, is the genuine zeal and inexhaustible delight with which all the barbarous countries he visits are described. He seems to love the forests, the tigers, and the apes; — to be rejoiced that he is the only man there; that he has left his species far away ; and is at last in the midst of his blessed baboons...
第 310 頁 - Walton Hall is twelve miles south of Leeds, and the nightingale breeds here and sings here charmingly. — CW" The Telegraph article was written in the winter of the previous year, and he saw the seasons round once more, and then sank from the effects of a slight accident, a fall from the rustic bridge near his future grave, when the insect world had burst into life, and all nature was carolling round hiD', in his favourite month of May.
第 434 頁 - A plain leg of mutton, my Lucy, I prythee get ready at three ; Have it tender, and smoking, and juicy, And what better meat can there, be?
第 452 頁 - Climb'd, and fell over, in the murky air. I thought of mind and matter, will and law, And then of him, who set his stately seal Of Roman words on all the forms he saw Of old-world husbandry : / could but feel With what a rich precision he would draw The endless ladder, and the booming wheel ! II Did any.
第 102 頁 - It is in their ability to tide through a Siberian winter that the real " blue blood" of the Herdwick comes out. Sometimes they are so snowed up on the hill side that it is impossible to get at them, and they can do little more than scratch and condition, or make good any deficiency at the end of his tenancy.