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... Jane Austen Died . 383 Jane Austen's Grave 384 Winchester Deanery 386 The Entrance to St. Cross 388 The Dole at St. Cross 391 In the Cloisters of St. Cross 393 Pope's Schoolhouse at Twyford . Twyford House 395 397 I IN SPENSER'S ...
... Jane Austen Died . 383 Jane Austen's Grave 384 Winchester Deanery 386 The Entrance to St. Cross 388 The Dole at St. Cross 391 In the Cloisters of St. Cross 393 Pope's Schoolhouse at Twyford . Twyford House 395 397 I IN SPENSER'S ...
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... Jane , as hinted above , be- came the wife of Thomas Hood . The eldest , Mariane , married Mr. Green , and had for her two sons the gifted artists Charles and Towneley Green . It was to celebrate her wedding that Hood drew the water ...
... Jane , as hinted above , be- came the wife of Thomas Hood . The eldest , Mariane , married Mr. Green , and had for her two sons the gifted artists Charles and Towneley Green . It was to celebrate her wedding that Hood drew the water ...
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... Jane Rey- nolds he wrote that henceforth he should con- sider her brother John his own brother also ; and in the last letter he penned , when the death dews were gathering on his brow in far - off Rome , he turned in tender thought to ...
... Jane Rey- nolds he wrote that henceforth he should con- sider her brother John his own brother also ; and in the last letter he penned , when the death dews were gathering on his brow in far - off Rome , he turned in tender thought to ...
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... - third Day of May , in the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Ninety - nine , at whose Birth we were present . " RUTH SANDS . " JANE CURLEE . 66 Registered at Dr. William's Library , Red- cross - 318 LITERARY BY - PATHS.
... - third Day of May , in the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Ninety - nine , at whose Birth we were present . " RUTH SANDS . " JANE CURLEE . 66 Registered at Dr. William's Library , Red- cross - 318 LITERARY BY - PATHS.
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... apart from the fact that the friendship culminated in his marriage with his sister , Jane Reynolds . Keats himself was often indebted to the fine lit- erary instinct of John Hamilton Reynolds , and it is 323 IN OLD ENGLAND.
... apart from the fact that the friendship culminated in his marriage with his sister , Jane Reynolds . Keats himself was often indebted to the fine lit- erary instinct of John Hamilton Reynolds , and it is 323 IN OLD ENGLAND.
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Alloway auld birth brother building Burns Burns's Carlyle was born Carlyle's father Castle church churchyard cottage daughter dear death Ecclefechan Elegy English fact Faerie Queene famous farm favour Gilbert White's grave heart Henry de Blois Hoddam Hill honour Hood's hope Ireland James Carlyle John Hamilton Reynolds John Keats Keats Keats's Kirk LENOX AND TILDEN letter literary Little Britain lived Lochlea London Mainhill Mariane Mauchline Mauchline Castle meeting-house memory Mossgiel mother Mount Oliphant never Penn Penshurst Penshurst Place Peter Bell pilgrim poem poet poet's portrait PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Reynolds's road Scotsbrig seems Selborne Sidney sister sonnet Spenser spirit Stoke Poges stone Street Tam O'Shanter Tarbolton Thomas Carlyle Thomas Hood thou TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tion took Towneley Green verse village volume walls wife Winchester Wordsworth write written wrote YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 104 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 162 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Page 152 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his" failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Page 162 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 160 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Page 263 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 112 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 36 - To the most mightie and magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 181 - This kind of life - the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave - brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme.
Page 190 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O