Warp and woof; or, The reminiscences of Doris Fletcher, by Holme Lee, Volumen2

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Smith, Elder, 1861
 

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Página 106 - Wings from the wind to please her mind, Notes from the lark I'll borrow; Bird prune thy wing, nightingale sing, To give my love good-morrow; To give my love good-morrow Notes from them both I'll borrow. Wake from thy nest, Robin red-breast, Sing, birds, in every furrow; And from each hill, let music shrill Give my fair love good-morrow!
Página 107 - I'll borrow. Wake from thy nest, robin redbreast ! Sing, birds, in every furrow ! And from each bill, let music shrill Give my fair Love good-morrow ! Blackbird and thrush in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow, You pretty elves, amongst yourselves Sing my fair Love good-morrow ! To give my Love good-morrow ! Sing, birds, in every furrow ! Set as a five-part glee by RJS Stevens, 1796 ; another setting by Smart.
Página 162 - That he was not scrupulously pious in some part of his life, is known by many idle and indecent applications of sentences taken from the Scriptures ; a mode of merriment which a good man dreads for its profaneness, and a witty man disdains for its easiness and vulgarity.
Página 14 - thy shoes shall be iron and brass,' and ' as thy days, so shall thy strength be ;' ' the eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms...
Página 148 - La philosophic triomphe aisement des maux passes et des maux a venir; mais les maux presents triomphent d'elle."* Herbert Spencer on the Americans and the Americans on Herbert Spencer.
Página 181 - I mentioned this fact to a medical gentleman, who informed me that he had made the same observation, and could account for it in no other way than by supposing that...
Página 88 - ... but the men said to them, ' Here is gold, let us go to the public-house and buy wine, which will give us strength to beget a fresh offspring. It is better that the king should eat the brats now they are young, than flay them when they are old, or tie them up in a sack and fling them into the Seine. It would have been much better for us, if we had been devoured by his father as soon as we were born.
Página 200 - Connie's plea that she had never felt better in her life, and that she...

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