 His hand guides the plough, and the plough his thoughts, and his ditch and land-mark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee and ree better than English. His mind is not much distracted...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Pàgina 4161818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1858 - 1246 pàgines
...leaves repentance for grey hairs, and performs it in being covetous: the plain country fellow whose mind is not much distracted with objects, but if a...his way, he stands dumb and astonished, and though hia haste be never so great, will fix here half an hour's contemplation : the plausible roan who uses... | |
 | sir Thomas Overbury - 1865 - 338 pàgines
...landmark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks " gee " and " ree " better than English....here half an hour's contemplation. His habitation is some poor thatched roof, distinguished from his barn by the loopholes that let out smoke which the... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1865 - 346 pàgines
...land-mark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee, and ree, better than English. His...his haste be never so great, will fix here half an hours contemplation. His habitation is some poor thatched roof, distinguished from his barn by the... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pàgines
...ought to be republished. How many a spirited antithesis in the following portrait — " The Clown :" distracted with objects ; but if a good fat cow come in his way, he stands dumb and astonished though his haste be never so great, and will fix here half an hour's conversation. His habitation is... | |
 | Lucy Cecil Lillie - 1878 - 384 pàgines
...sheep, or guided the oxen. " He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly," says Bishop Earle, " and speaks gee and ree better than English. His mind...here half an hour's contemplation. His habitation is some poor thatched roof, distinguished from his barn by the loop-holes that let out smoke, which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pàgines
...land-mark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee and ree better than English. His mind...here half an hour's contemplation. His habitation is some poor thatched roof, distinguished from his barn by the loopholes that let out smoke, which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pàgines
...meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understHndingly, and spraks g.*e and ree better ttum Euirlisn. His mind is not much distracted with objects ; but if a good fat cow come iu his way, he stauds dumb and astonished, nnn though his haste lie never so great,' will fix here... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1884 - 352 pàgines
...land-mark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee, and ree, better than English. His...his haste be never so great, will fix here half an hours contemplation. His habitation is some poor thatched roof, distinguished from his barn by the... | |
 | 1889 - 570 pàgines
...not grasse, because he loves notSallets [salads]. He expostulates with his Oxen very understandingly, and speaks Gee and Ree better than English. His mind...a good Fat Cow come in his way, he stands dumb and astonisht, and though his haste be never so greate, will fix here half an houre's contemplation. Or... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1889 - 524 pàgines
...grasse, because he loves not Sallets [salads]. He expostulates with his Oxen very understanding!}-, and speaks Gee and Ree better than English. His mind...much distracted with objects, but if a good Fat Cow comtin his way, he stands dumb and astonish!, and though his haste be never so greate, will fix here... | |
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