The Autobiography of a Cornish Rector, Volume 1Tinsley Brothers, 1872 |
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The Autobiography of a Cornish Rector, by the Late James Hamley Tregenna Robert Bateman Paul No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 181 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 1 - Moves in her virgin-veil the gentle bride. And once, alas, nor in a distant hour, Another voice shall come from yonder tower : When in dim chambers long black weeds are seen, And...
Page 179 - Indian was asked what he had to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him. This was interpreted to him, and he said that he would rather run awhile.
Page 52 - A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light. To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
Page 4 - Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness ; that when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth...
Page 60 - Yes, yes ; if you reckon, we reckon; if you pay your debts, we pay ours; if you fly, we overcome, and are content.