The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volumen 20J. Cumberland, 1826 |
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Página 16 - And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old ; Wherefore I was afraid, And durst not show you mine opinion. I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Página 140 - Five or six inches of an iron hoop, made into a knife, and the shank of an arrow-head of iron, which served her as an awl, were all the metals this poor woman had with her when she eloped ; and with these implements she had made herself complete snow-shoes, and several other useful articles.
Página 43 - Bright is her hue, and Geraldine she hight; Hampton me taught to wish her first for mine, And Windsor, alas, doth chase me from her sight. Her beauty, of kind; her virtues, from above; Happy is he that can obtain her love.
Página 131 - Archbishop Parker, to whom she had also submitted her work, bestowed the highest praise on it, which he confirmed by a compliment of much elegance. He returned it to her printed, knowing, as he said in his letter to her, that...
Página 6 - Sometimes she sings my verses, and accompanies them with the lute, without any master except love, the best of instructors. From these instances I take the most certain omens of our perpetual and increasing happiness ; since her affection is not founded on my youth and person, which must gradually decay, but she is in love with the immortal part of me, my glory and reputation.
Página 41 - He would not satisfy our curiosity ; but at our return from the Rio Negro we learnt, that the Indian mother was not allowed time to cure her wounds, but was again separated from 237 her children, and sent to one of the missions of the Upper Oroonoko.
Página 139 - ... being calculated for real service, showed great taste, and exhibited no little variety of ornament. The materials, though rude, were very curiously wrought, and so judiciously placed, as to make the whole of her garb have a very pleasing, though rather romantic appearance.
Página 57 - she had the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age — and all at eighteen — the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, and the death of a malefactor for her parents
Página 5 - You would smile to see the concern she is in when I have a cause to plead, and the joy she shows when it is over. She finds means to have the first news brought her of the success I meet with in court, how I am heard, and what decree is made. If I recite...
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