 | London readers - 1878 - 296 σελίδες
...Ex-cu'-bi- tor, a sentinel or watcher. As-sid'-ui-ty, constant or close application. DICTATION EXERCISE. Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land ; I had given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's good-will. Nothing could exceed the neatness of... | |
 | Clarence Cook - 1878 - 454 σελίδες
...because she would obey ; or, rather, because she would obey, he therein ruling."— StDNEY'S ARCADtA. " Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...before; on one side a meadow, on the other a green. Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little inclosure : the elms and hedge-rows appearing with inexpressible... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 σελίδες
...the neatness of my little enclosures, the elms and edge-rows appeariDg with inexpressible beauty .... Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...before; on one side a meadow, on the other a green .... (It) consisted but of one story and was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness... | |
 | P. Blouët - 1888 - 216 σελίδες
...I'esprit. " Was made up in laughter — jut suppUt par la gatti. XVII.— THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD'S HOUSE. Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with1 a beautiful underwood2 behind,3 and a prattling river before;4 on one side5 a meadow, on the... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 σελίδες
...at which we sat cheerfully down; and what the conversation wanted in wit was made up in laughter. » Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...good-will. Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little enclosures, the elms and hedge-rows appearing with inexpressible beauty. My 2 house consisted of but... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 552 σελίδες
...of speech, and call it Anacoluthon, ie Inconsequent ; and there is generally a Participle concerned. My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent...given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's good-will. — Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, chap. iv. The Participle has the function of (what may... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1890 - 386 σελίδες
...the parsonage and the parson's manner of intercourse with his parishioners since Goldsmith's time. " Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green. My farm consisted of about twenty... | |
 | George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 σελίδες
...at which we sat cheerfully down ; and what the conversation wanted in wit, was made up in laughter. Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...about twenty acres of excellent land, having given an hundred pound for my predecessor's goodwill. Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little inclosures,... | |
 | 1894 - 264 σελίδες
...which we sat cheerfully down ; and what the conversation wanted in wit was made up in laughter. 3. Our little habitation was situated at the foot of...consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, I having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's goodwill. Nothing could exceed the neatness of... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - 1894 - 930 σελίδες
....r.-.l with thuiio innocent," &c. — Pint Edit., p. 31. • CHAI-. iv. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD 313 hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind,...about twenty acres -of excellent land, having given an hundred pound for my predecessor's goodwill. Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little enclosures;... | |
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Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green. 
