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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... wish to procure Miriam's gratification , girlish vanity would have its way , and she was delighted with the gift . " How very beautiful ! " exclaimed Miriam , who had crept near to look at it . " Not half so beautiful as my Jessie ...
... wish to procure Miriam's gratification , girlish vanity would have its way , and she was delighted with the gift . " How very beautiful ! " exclaimed Miriam , who had crept near to look at it . " Not half so beautiful as my Jessie ...
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... wishes . At first they were silent ; but on being asked whether they had not heard that the founder of the club was ... wish to receive back your deposits , only say the word , and we will come early to - morrow morning , and stay all ...
... wishes . At first they were silent ; but on being asked whether they had not heard that the founder of the club was ... wish to receive back your deposits , only say the word , and we will come early to - morrow morning , and stay all ...
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... wish to recom- mend to those whose birth requires that they should be reared amid the elegancies and refinements of life , associations which might prove injurious to their man- ners or their position . Such is not in any degree our aim ...
... wish to recom- mend to those whose birth requires that they should be reared amid the elegancies and refinements of life , associations which might prove injurious to their man- ners or their position . Such is not in any degree our aim ...
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... wish mine were over ; for even my lessons with good , stupid Mr. Lumley afforded me better amusement than being left alone all day . I only wish I were a fisherman's daughter , and then I should , at least , have something to do , and ...
... wish mine were over ; for even my lessons with good , stupid Mr. Lumley afforded me better amusement than being left alone all day . I only wish I were a fisherman's daughter , and then I should , at least , have something to do , and ...
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... wish to study the subject more minutely may peruse with advantage . TO A LEAF . W. ANDREWS . Simplest , yet most complex , thing Mother earth could ever bring From her bosom dim and deep , Where the germs of beauty sleep , In the forest ...
... wish to study the subject more minutely may peruse with advantage . TO A LEAF . W. ANDREWS . Simplest , yet most complex , thing Mother earth could ever bring From her bosom dim and deep , Where the germs of beauty sleep , In the forest ...
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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...