The People's journal (with which is incorporated Howitt's journal) ed. by J. Saunders. [Continued as] People's & Howitt's journal, Volumes 3-4 |
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... beautiful ! " exclaimed Miriam , who had crept near to look at it . " Not half so beautiful as my Jessie , " said the father , proudly , as he kissed the snowy brow of his fairer child . Miriam's eyes glanced fondly on her sister , but ...
... beautiful ! " exclaimed Miriam , who had crept near to look at it . " Not half so beautiful as my Jessie , " said the father , proudly , as he kissed the snowy brow of his fairer child . Miriam's eyes glanced fondly on her sister , but ...
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... beautiful July day shone forth in all its sunimer glory , when on the morn of the festival she carried her intentions into effect , and sought the gloomy fir - grove , which she had learned to love better than any other place , on ...
... beautiful July day shone forth in all its sunimer glory , when on the morn of the festival she carried her intentions into effect , and sought the gloomy fir - grove , which she had learned to love better than any other place , on ...
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... beautiful little flower which I love and admire very much , and most other people do I am sure : it is for ever fresh and blooming in the wreath of friendship and sincerity : where I hope it will blossom for ever ; for there it is ...
... beautiful little flower which I love and admire very much , and most other people do I am sure : it is for ever fresh and blooming in the wreath of friendship and sincerity : where I hope it will blossom for ever ; for there it is ...
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... beautiful blue , it is by no means a showy or attractive object . Such tiny things are generally reserved for the admiring eye of the natu- ralist ; and it affords him not the least source of his pleasures to discover the beautiful ...
... beautiful blue , it is by no means a showy or attractive object . Such tiny things are generally reserved for the admiring eye of the natu- ralist ; and it affords him not the least source of his pleasures to discover the beautiful ...
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... beautiful bodily adaptation to their different situations and modes of life , but that they possess remarkable symmetry and elegance of appearance ? Earth has its sun - flowers and star - like blossoms ; and the ocean too is the birth ...
... beautiful bodily adaptation to their different situations and modes of life , but that they possess remarkable symmetry and elegance of appearance ? Earth has its sun - flowers and star - like blossoms ; and the ocean too is the birth ...
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Page 243 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 62 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 335 - Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright; As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.
Page 41 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Page 300 - And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 244 - Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul. Sweeter than Dayspring to the Shipwrecked in Nova Zembla; ah, like the mother's voice to her little child that strays bewildered, weeping, in unknown tumults; like soft streamings of celestial music to my too-exasperated heart, came that Evangel. The Universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres; but godlike, and my Father's!
Page 188 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it, and upon...
Page 5 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 336 - Last Friday was Valentine's Day, and the night before I got five bay-leaves, and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle ; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But, to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lovers...
Page 313 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...