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COATE FARM, SWINDON, November 25, 1872. SIR, Many gentlemen having written to me for further information upon the system of glebe allotments for labourers mentioned in my letter to the Times of November 14, it has occurred to me that the following facts may be interesting: The glebe alluded to was that of Lyddington, near Swindon, and the plan was originated by the late incumbent, Mr.
"A house, a glebe, a pound a day; A pleasant place to watch and pray. Be true to Church, be kind to poor, O minister, for evermore!" The interior was furnished with old-fashioned heavy furniture and the outside was conspicuous for its remarkable chimneys, which were finished off as models of the towers of churches where he had served.
Wordsworth, flanked by two of distinguished race-horses; one of a Leicestershire short-horn, with which the Parson, who farmed his own glebe and bred cattle in its rich pastures, had won a prize at the county show; and on either side of that animal were the portraits of Hooker and Jeremy Taylor.
This was one motive, but there was another still stronger, which was, to have an interview with the leading men of the Grand Jury, for the purpose of getting a new road run past his Glebe House, in the first place, and, in the next, to secure a good job for himself, as a magistrate.
These storied towns may then be with us still to teach what no history book can tell, and to inspire us with the spirit of emulation for those qualities which sleep with the Genius of the Past. Great Evesham's fertile glebe what tongue hath not extolled. As though to her alone belonged the crown of gold.
Dick Garstin is my master. He has given me the run of his studio in Glebe Place." "And you watch him at work?" said Craven. "Yes." She fixed her eyes on him, and added: "He is painting a living bronze." "Somebody very handsome?" said Lady Sellingworth, glancing across the house to the trio in the box opposite. "Yes, a man called Nicolas Arabian."
Believe me, youth, the truly great Stoop not to mourn o'er fallen state; They make their wants and wishes less, And rise superior to distress; The glebe they break the sheaf they bind But elevates a noble mind.
"There's a seat on the car, I know, Herbert," she said; "for you mean to ride; and I'm just as much interested about the mill as any of you." "I'm afraid the day would be too long for you, Aunt Letty," said Mary: "we shall stay there, you know, till after four." "Not a bit too long. When I'm tired I shall go into Mrs. Townsend's; the glebe is not ten minutes' drive from Berryhill." The Rev.
It will do just as well as our neighbor Diggory Dyson here, and a plaguy deal cheaper, for it will require neither tithes, glebe, Easter-dues, nor church-rates!"
"I wish," said Ulysses, "that you who speak this and myself were to be tried at any taskwork: that I had a good crooked scythe put in my hand, that was sharp and strong, and you such another, where the grass grew longest, to be up by daybreak, mowing the meadows till the sun went down, not tasting of food till we had finished; or that we were set to plough four acres in one day of good glebe land, to see whose furrows were evenest and cleanest; or that we might have one wrestling-bout together; or that in our right hands a good steel-headed lance were placed, to try whose blows fell heaviest and thickest upon the adversary's head-piece.
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