Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volumen227

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F. Jefferies, 1869
 

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Página 88 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 76 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Página 435 - Her father, James II, was candid and cruel; she was brutal. At the same time she was mild at bottom. A contradiction which only appears such. A fit of anger metamorphosed her. Heat sugar and it will boil.
Página 587 - asked Jamie Soutar eagerly. The old man, now very feeble, stood in the middle of the road, and his face, once so hard, was softened into a winsome tenderness. " ' Come, ye blessed of My Father ... I was sick and ye visited Me.
Página 249 - A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine Bay, and Afric coast.
Página 43 - I'd borrow, And hope to-morrow would end my woes. But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.
Página 183 - Forgive me: now I turn to thee, thou shadow Of my contracted lord ! Bear witness all, I put my mother's wedding-ring upon His finger; 'twas my father's last bequest.
Página 183 - I danc'd forward But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows ; Yet live to...
Página 251 - By thine own use, and not by others' eyes ; If (only safe from weathers) thou can'st dwell In a small house, but a convenient shell ; If thou, without a sigh, or golden wish, Canst look upon thy beechen bowl, and dish ; If in thy mind such power and greatness be, The Persian king's a slave compar'd with thee.
Página 89 - There are three difficulties in authorship : — to write anything worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it— and to get sensible men to read it...

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