Dynevor Terrace: Or, The Clue of Life, Opseg 1

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D. Appleton, 1857
 

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Stranica 1 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Stranica 54 - I've got it yet, And can produce it." — " Pray, sir, do; I'll lay my life the thing is blue." — "And I'll be sworn that when you've seen The reptile you'll pronounce him green.
Stranica 54 - cease your pother, The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night, And viewed it o'er by candle-light; I marked it well, 'twas black as jet — You stare — but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it.
Stranica 153 - A house there is (and that's enough) From whence one fatal morning issues A brace of warriors, not in buff, But rustling in their silks and tissues.
Stranica 1 - Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe ? " Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies' lost command ; They did but change priests...
Stranica 261 - But still the lady shook her head, And swore by yea and nay, My whole was all that he had said, And all that he could say.
Stranica 129 - Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance; For who is he, whose chin is but enriched With one appearing hair, that will not follow These culled and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
Stranica 144 - said Mary, suspecting that he was beginning to repent of his lazy fit, and wanted her to hear his confession. " I mean, Mary," said he, rising, and speaking faster, " if you — if you would take charge of me altogether. If you would have me, I would do all I could to make you happy; and it would be such joy to my father, and — " (rather like an afterthought)
Stranica 175 - Thus dissuading spake Nokomis, And my Hiawatha answered Only this: "Dear old Nokomis, Very pleasant is the firelight, But I like the starlight better, Better do I like the moonlight!
Stranica 20 - I pass'd by his garden, and saw the wild brier, The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher ; The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags : And his money still wastes till he starves or he begs.

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