... faint resemblance, or even on some turn of thought untraced and unaccountable, again the hills and valleys spread, to aged memory more true than ever to youthful eyesight ; again the trees are rustling in the wind as they used to rustle ; again the... Literary and Biographical Studies - Side 27af James Baker - 1908 - 259 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1874 - 804 sider
...in the wind as they used to rustle ; again the sheep climb up the brown turf in their snowy zigzag. A thousand winks of childhood widen into one clear dream of age. CHAPTER n. "How came that old house up there ?" is generally the first question put by a Londoner to... | |
| 1874 - 802 sider
...in the wind as they used to rustle; again the sheep climb up the brown turf in their snowy zigzag. A thousand winks of childhood widen into one clear dream of age. CHAPTER II. " How came that old house up there ? " is generally the first question put by a Londoner... | |
| Richard Doddridge Blackmore - 1875 - 364 sider
...in the wind as they used to rustle ; again the sheep climb up the brown turf in their snowy zigzag. A thousand winks of childhood widen into one clear dream of age. CHAPTER II. COOMBE LORRAINE. " How came that old house up there ?" is generally the first question... | |
| John Rennie - 1910 - 394 sider
...Study may dim the eyes for life. Only as we keep it fairly free and flexible will, as Blackmore says, " a thousand winks of childhood widen into one clear dream of age." Therefore, while we wish to be thorough in parts and most serious at times and clear always, we must... | |
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