The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & RomanceGeo. Henderson, 1867 |
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... fact that the land of Fluellen and his leek , it takes a wile company of men to chase the flying bride- groom , to hold him tight whilst the ceremony being performed , otherwise he would cer- lyfy as far as he could from the Temple of ...
... fact that the land of Fluellen and his leek , it takes a wile company of men to chase the flying bride- groom , to hold him tight whilst the ceremony being performed , otherwise he would cer- lyfy as far as he could from the Temple of ...
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... fact are now , whilst I write case the rooks ' senate will be very unlike certain these lines , bare stubble - deserts where the par- similar bodies among the superior race of ani- tridge hides , and the field - mouse has her sub - mals ...
... fact are now , whilst I write case the rooks ' senate will be very unlike certain these lines , bare stubble - deserts where the par- similar bodies among the superior race of ani- tridge hides , and the field - mouse has her sub - mals ...
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... fact . A gentleman was walking through the streets of Manchester , and noticed a number of porters lying under the wall of the Royal Exchange , as their custom is , waiting to be hired . They were all either asleep or in the last stage ...
... fact . A gentleman was walking through the streets of Manchester , and noticed a number of porters lying under the wall of the Royal Exchange , as their custom is , waiting to be hired . They were all either asleep or in the last stage ...
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... fact , that you value her health and life and happiness beyond all other things in the world ; and let this be manifest to her , particularly at those times when life is always more or less in danger . London , in the first week of ...
... fact , that you value her health and life and happiness beyond all other things in the world ; and let this be manifest to her , particularly at those times when life is always more or less in danger . London , in the first week of ...
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... fact that work at Christmas exists , and in a hard and unrelenting form . No doubt this may appear strange , especially to the sturdy little boys and fresh - coloured golden - haired girls , just come home from school , aud believing ...
... fact that work at Christmas exists , and in a hard and unrelenting form . No doubt this may appear strange , especially to the sturdy little boys and fresh - coloured golden - haired girls , just come home from school , aud believing ...
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Page 20 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 170 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 44 - New mercies each returning day Hover around us while we pray — New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
Page 19 - TO THE MUSES. WHETHER on Ida's shady brow Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the Sun, that now From ancient melody have ceased ; Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 1 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 125 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Page 74 - Tis the Spring's largess, which she scatters now To rich and poor alike, with lavish hand, Though most hearts never understand To take it at God's value, but pass by The offered wealth with unrewarded eye.
Page 83 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 61 - Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 74 - When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book.