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Page 155
... boy- hood ; and the opportunity is favourable . My wife and daughter are devoted to my wishes on this subject ; his Lordship shewed a marked predi- lection for Juliana when she was a child . " “ And I may not see my father ? " said ...
... boy- hood ; and the opportunity is favourable . My wife and daughter are devoted to my wishes on this subject ; his Lordship shewed a marked predi- lection for Juliana when she was a child . " “ And I may not see my father ? " said ...
Page 240
... - same motives which lead a vain little school - boy to shew his copy , or recite his hymn . " Cut off frae his heritage like a hairy Esau 1 240 ELIZABETH DE BRUCE . acquaintance, Mrs. Christy Grahame of Pitbauch- ...
... - same motives which lead a vain little school - boy to shew his copy , or recite his hymn . " Cut off frae his heritage like a hairy Esau 1 240 ELIZABETH DE BRUCE . acquaintance, Mrs. Christy Grahame of Pitbauch- ...
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... boy , Should you meet him onward faring , boy , In Lapland's snow Or Chili's glow , You'd say , What news from Erin , boy ? REV . CHARLES WOLFE . THE young man whom we unceremoniously dropped near the Crossgates of Caberax , far back in ...
... boy , Should you meet him onward faring , boy , In Lapland's snow Or Chili's glow , You'd say , What news from Erin , boy ? REV . CHARLES WOLFE . THE young man whom we unceremoniously dropped near the Crossgates of Caberax , far back in ...
Page 320
... boy for bewitching them ; " for , besides being the life of a lyke - waik , the soul of a patron , and the deftest cudgel that re- paired to any fair in Munster , it was guessed that he had been " in trouble , " a resistless claim at ...
... boy for bewitching them ; " for , besides being the life of a lyke - waik , the soul of a patron , and the deftest cudgel that re- paired to any fair in Munster , it was guessed that he had been " in trouble , " a resistless claim at ...
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... boy , and , moreover , an Irish post - boy . His dress was of the same mixed character . The broken , narrow- brimmed hat , which hung back by the last peg on his head as carelessly as the owner appeared to hang on life , was decidedly ...
... boy , and , moreover , an Irish post - boy . His dress was of the same mixed character . The broken , narrow- brimmed hat , which hung back by the last peg on his head as carelessly as the owner appeared to hang on life , was decidedly ...
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Page 9 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Page 268 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 318 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny. Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 123 - And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Page 80 - An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
Page 354 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page 52 - For still in form he placed his chief delight, Nor lightly broke his old accustomed rule, And much uncourteous would he hold the wight That e'er displaced a table, chair, or stool; And oft in meet array their ranks he placed, And oft with careful eye their ranks reviewed; For novel forms...
Page 116 - March laft, in this prefent year of our Lord 1788, or upon one or other of the days or nights of that month, or of February immediately preceding, or of April |immediately following, You, the...
Page 294 - My own friend — my own friend ! There's no one like my own friend ; For all the gold The world can hold, I would not give my own friend. II. So bold and frank his bearing, boy, Should you meet him onward faring, boy, In Lapland's snow Or Chili's glow, You'd say what news from Erin, boy ? III.