Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap BookFisher, Son, and Jackson, 1835 - English poetry |
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... mother . The country in this part is filled with traditions that record , and ballads that celebrate anecdotes of the predatory warfare then so general . The following ballad was communicated to me by a friend , who has the usual vivid ...
... mother . The country in this part is filled with traditions that record , and ballads that celebrate anecdotes of the predatory warfare then so general . The following ballad was communicated to me by a friend , who has the usual vivid ...
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... mother go . MISS JANE PORTER . This engraving represents our accomplished author as the lady of a chapter belonging to a chivalric order . This high compliment from a German court was paid to the merit of Thaddeus of Warsaw . This ...
... mother go . MISS JANE PORTER . This engraving represents our accomplished author as the lady of a chapter belonging to a chivalric order . This high compliment from a German court was paid to the merit of Thaddeus of Warsaw . This ...
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... mother's favourite child , Who loved her for her eyes of blue , And she is delicate and mild , She cannot do what I can do . She never met her father's eyes , Although they were so like her own ; In some far distant sea he lies , A ...
... mother's favourite child , Who loved her for her eyes of blue , And she is delicate and mild , She cannot do what I can do . She never met her father's eyes , Although they were so like her own ; In some far distant sea he lies , A ...
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... mother the blind and the old , Before the drear winter is cheerless and cold ; I shall hear his light footstep his coming declare , And kiss his fair forehead , and touch his soft hair . The moon of the hunter is now in her wane , And ...
... mother the blind and the old , Before the drear winter is cheerless and cold ; I shall hear his light footstep his coming declare , And kiss his fair forehead , and touch his soft hair . The moon of the hunter is now in her wane , And ...
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... mother with fond fears . Our fierce and cruel nature , that which sleeps In all , though lulled by custom , law ... Mothers have been seen to devour the dead bodies of their own children ! Drawn by H : Melville . 1 46 46.
... mother with fond fears . Our fierce and cruel nature , that which sleeps In all , though lulled by custom , law ... Mothers have been seen to devour the dead bodies of their own children ! Drawn by H : Melville . 1 46 46.
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Allom amid ANNA MARIA PORTER beauty BERNARD BARTON bough bright brow cave child Christian colours COQUETTE dark DAVID WILKIE despair doth dream drooping EMMA ROBERTS enchanted Engraved eyes fair fairy father's fear FISHER flowers FOUNTAINS gate glittering gloom gold river golden grave hall handsomely bound hath hear heart heaven hope hour JANE PORTER lady ladye leave life's lingering LONDON lonely Long Lonkin maiden meet his sight Melusine mighty morning mother never night o'er OLINTHUS GREGORY Painted pale past Pilgrim's Progress Portrait purple Quarto rall RAPHAEL SANZIO round SAMUEL DREW Says Orange Says the Lonkin scenes shadow shining silent silvery sing Sketched by Capt sleep smile shall meet solitude song SPEKE HALL strange sunshine sweep sweet thee THOMAS ALLOM thou thought tomb tower tree Twas walls wandering waves weary weep Westmorland wild wind word of light wreaths wrought young youth
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Page 18 - What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty ! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any • lock in Doubting Castle.
Page 18 - ... castle-yard, and with his key opened that door also. After he went to the iron gate, for that must be opened too, but that lock went very hard, yet the key did open it. Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed ; but that gate as it opened made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them.
Page 86 - Hark, said Mr. Great-Heart, to what the shepherd's boy saith ! so they hearkened, and he said, He that is down needs fear no fall ; He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his Guide.
Page 18 - Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed; but that gate as it opened made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair, who hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them. Then they went on, and came to the King's Highway again, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdiction.
Page 18 - Then Christian pulled it out of his bosom, and began to try at the dungeon-door, whose bolt, as he turned the key, gave back, and the door flew open with ease, and Christian and Hopeful both came out. Then he went to the outward door that leads into the castle-yard, and with his key opened that door also. After...
Page 4 - To hold the gold basin, It grieves me full sore ; Oh kill me, dear Lonkin, And let my mother go.
Page 86 - I am content with what I have, Little be it or much ; And, Lord ! contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fulness to such a burden is, That go on pilgrimage: Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.