Think what the fathers of the Victorian era could be, and what its evangelical parsons often were; and remember that Mr. Brontë was an evangelical parson, and the father of Emily and Charlotte, not of a brood of gentle, immaculate Jane Austens, and that he was confronted suddenly and without a moment's warning with Charlotte's fame.

"Guineas!" said the rat-eyed Parsons.

This gave me so great an aversion to the very word, that, when a child, I made it a condition with my tutor, who was an honest parson, that I would not read my Bible at all, if he would not excuse me one of the wisest books in it: to which, however, I had no other objection, than that it was called The Proverbs.

The northern races were trying to prevent, and there was pommelling and knocking down, cursing and knife-drawing, until Jules St.-Ange was quite carried away with the fun, laughed, clapped his hands, and swore with delight, and ever kept close to the gallant parson.

The average parson was thenand many of them still arecoarse and rough, as contact with the forests and waste places of the world will often make men, even godly ones.

the drone of a bewhiskered, bald-headed parson being the sole music which greeted her ears.

We have little reason, it is true, to suppose that this light-minded and valetudinarian Yorkshire parson was at any period of his life an industrious "parish priest;" but it is probable, nevertheless, that time never hung very heavily upon his hands.

the drone of a bewhiskered, bald-headed parson being the sole music which greeted her ears.

there was nothing completely like them; but of all unlike things, the Church of England with its "smug parsons," and pony-carriages for their wives and daughters, seemed to him the most unlike: more unlike than the great unreformed Roman Church, with its strange, unscriptural doctrines and its undeniable crimes, and its alliance, wherever it could, with the world.

" All work and no plagiarism makes a dull parson.

"But,as to that cup-board over there,Sheraton, I think,what might you suppose it to be worth,betwixt friends, now?" enquired Parsons, the rat eyed.

This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the simple life from GRAY'S Elegy: Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenner of their way.

He had no care for the possession of influence; he had deliberately chosen the fallentis semita vitae, and to be what his father had been, a faithful and contented country parson, was all that he desired.

His father was a clergyman, vicar of Winlaton, Northumberlanda charming type of the old-fashioned parson, a friendship with Sir Walter Scott in the background, and many little possessions of the great Sir Walter's in the foreground to remind one of what had been.

He seemed like a cold, stiff, formal State parson.

A gentleman shall casually let slip some profane word, and even some friendly parson standing by will think but little of it; but let the profane word, through some unfortunate accident, find its way into the newspapers, and the gentleman will be held to have disgraced himself almost for ever.

One evening there dropped in a plump man who exhaled a mild and comforting benevolence, like a gentle country parson.

In an unlucky moment he made bold to lay hold of the parson, but a piece of the broken barriers in the hands of a flat-boatman felled him to the sod, the terrible crowd swept over him, the lariat was cut and the giant parson hurled the tiger upon the buffalo's back.

They went every Sunday to whittle sticks, swap jack-knives and horses, and to listen to the white-haired parson who led them by the resistless rhetoric of a blameless life, as well as by his heartfelt prayers and exhortations in those "ways which are ways of pleasantness and those paths which are paths of peace.

'In hell,' cried the indignant parson, 'for those who sleep under the sound of the gospel.'

He is an industrious parson, a striving, persevering, roughly-hewn, hard-working mana good visitor, a willing worker, free and kindly disposed towards poor people, and the exact man for such a district as that in which he is located.

Wasn't that the sort of picture our kindly parson drew for us on Sunday?

But for this stormit rages louder than everwe would have been married by a little parson whom Burford would have fetched from Portsmouth, and we should have been over the Channel, and my people hailing my bride with ecstasy.

Nothing can be more perfect in its way than the picture of the "lively, witty, sensitive, and heedless parson," in chapter x. of the first volume of Tristram Shandy.

He had no proud contempt for married parsons.