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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... fair , Gentle , and good , and happy be- But sometimes waste a thought on me ! The world is very cold and bleak , While Pleasure crowns our happiest lot ; But ah ! to bear the crimson cheek , The aching heart - and be forgot ! Name ...
... fair , Gentle , and good , and happy be- But sometimes waste a thought on me ! The world is very cold and bleak , While Pleasure crowns our happiest lot ; But ah ! to bear the crimson cheek , The aching heart - and be forgot ! Name ...
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... fair hair , and when they look up with their blue eyes into our faces - we love to see them when they fall asleep , their pretty faces falling into the softness of the pillow like a statue of marble ; they look like angels that have ...
... fair hair , and when they look up with their blue eyes into our faces - we love to see them when they fall asleep , their pretty faces falling into the softness of the pillow like a statue of marble ; they look like angels that have ...
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... fair descendants of the first colonists are gifted with a large amount of personal attraction , and it is rare to find among them any who have not some claim to admiration . It might have been Jessie's sweet temper and noble qualities ...
... fair descendants of the first colonists are gifted with a large amount of personal attraction , and it is rare to find among them any who have not some claim to admiration . It might have been Jessie's sweet temper and noble qualities ...
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... Fair is here ! " - such was the impulsive joy of our boyhood , when Richardson was announced , for we revelled in anti- cipated ecstasy : and with what pride and reverence have we not stood in the fair held in our native town , gazing ...
... Fair is here ! " - such was the impulsive joy of our boyhood , when Richardson was announced , for we revelled in anti- cipated ecstasy : and with what pride and reverence have we not stood in the fair held in our native town , gazing ...
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... fair green fields , and wide expanse of ocean ; and while I was pondering these things , an invisible agency was drawing me nearer to the earth ; and , with- out astonishment , but with a strange feeling of happi- ness and peace upon my ...
... fair green fields , and wide expanse of ocean ; and while I was pondering these things , an invisible agency was drawing me nearer to the earth ; and , with- out astonishment , but with a strange feeling of happi- ness and peace upon my ...
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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...