The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1849 |
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... asked for - honey , oaten bread , milk , eggs , and even her best home - made wine - but she told him , when he pressed his gewgaws on her , that a simple hamlet woman needed none of these , that it was not honest , because not fitting ...
... asked for - honey , oaten bread , milk , eggs , and even her best home - made wine - but she told him , when he pressed his gewgaws on her , that a simple hamlet woman needed none of these , that it was not honest , because not fitting ...
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... asked for kisses , fast and fond , on its innocent loveliness . It was a miracle , the neighbours said ; and even Janet seemed to hold her treasure tremblingly , as if her very love would not be found sufficient to keep him still her ...
... asked for kisses , fast and fond , on its innocent loveliness . It was a miracle , the neighbours said ; and even Janet seemed to hold her treasure tremblingly , as if her very love would not be found sufficient to keep him still her ...
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... asked his spiritual advisers what course he should pursue . They advised him to build a church to the " Holy Cross ; " and as he did not wish to break his vow to the saint , he built another church on the first . The duke himself is ...
... asked his spiritual advisers what course he should pursue . They advised him to build a church to the " Holy Cross ; " and as he did not wish to break his vow to the saint , he built another church on the first . The duke himself is ...
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... asked the Cistercian Nuns , to whom it was appropriated , whether anything more was required . They replied in the language of their country- " Trzeba nic " - ( nothing is required ) ; and Trebnitz , the present name of the place , is ...
... asked the Cistercian Nuns , to whom it was appropriated , whether anything more was required . They replied in the language of their country- " Trzeba nic " - ( nothing is required ) ; and Trebnitz , the present name of the place , is ...
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... asked how he could assist them , when they pointed to an inscription - From Renunciation flows Redemption . Thinking that these words referred to his own unholy love , Conrad promised the renunciation , which the inscription seemed to ...
... asked how he could assist them , when they pointed to an inscription - From Renunciation flows Redemption . Thinking that these words referred to his own unholy love , Conrad promised the renunciation , which the inscription seemed to ...
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Página 331 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Página 271 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have : I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Página 418 - Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 500 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Página 135 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Página 58 - King to place, or to depose him, Dwelleth not in my desire, But the duty which he owes him, To his master pays the squire.
Página 104 - ... and pulled me down on the body of an old man who was breathing out his last sigh. As the officer was pressing me to the ground we wrestled together among the dying and the dead with the energy of despair. I struggled with this man till I pulled him down, and happily got again upon my legs — (I afterwards found that he never rose again) — and scrambling over a pile of corpses, I made my way back into the body of the church, where I found my friends, and we succeeded in reaching the sacristy...
Página 172 - I approve of the business: only I desire to advise you that your' foot company ' may be turned into a troop of horse; which indeed will, by God's blessing, far more advantage the Cause than two or three companies of foot; especially if your men be honest godly men, which by all means I desire. I thank God for stirring up the youth to cast in their mite, which I desire may be employed to the best advantage; therefore my advice is, that you would employ your Twelve-score Pounds to buy pistols and saddles,...
Página 307 - ... Scarron's fun revived. When asked by the notary what was the young lady's fortune, he replied: 'Four louis, two large wicked eyes, one fine figure, one pair of good hands, and lots of mind.' 'And what do you give her?' asked the lawyer. — 'Immortality,' replied he, with the air of a bombastic poet 'The names of the wives of kings die with them — that of Scarron's wife will live for ever!
Página 140 - Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting at times to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightning: she, in sooth, Possess'd an air and grace by no means common; Her stature tall— I hate a dumpy woman.