The Drawing-room magazine: or, Ladies book of fancy needlework and choice literature1848 |
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... called , " Woman's pretty excuse for thought . " " It also , " says another author , " shews a white hand to perfection ; and is exceedingly becoming to long eye- lashes , and a well - turned neck ! " Neither is it altogether so ...
... called , " Woman's pretty excuse for thought . " " It also , " says another author , " shews a white hand to perfection ; and is exceedingly becoming to long eye- lashes , and a well - turned neck ! " Neither is it altogether so ...
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... called The Five Sisters . ' " " We have quoted this legend in many parts word for word ; feeling that our own language fell far short of the exquisite simplicity in which it has been clothed by a living genius . The moral needs not to ...
... called The Five Sisters . ' " " We have quoted this legend in many parts word for word ; feeling that our own language fell far short of the exquisite simplicity in which it has been clothed by a living genius . The moral needs not to ...
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... called , and we can fancy her desiring no clearer appellation of Fame . " You may think , " writes this loving and true - hearted wife and woman- " You may VOL . I. B NO . I. think that persons who love as we do have no THE DRAWING ...
... called , and we can fancy her desiring no clearer appellation of Fame . " You may think , " writes this loving and true - hearted wife and woman- " You may VOL . I. B NO . I. think that persons who love as we do have no THE DRAWING ...
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... called . a master - stroke to turn her soul to love , to unlock its secrets , and obtain free and unreserved admission into her heart . With Clementine he had more frequent converse , and often would they turn to some favorite subject ...
... called . a master - stroke to turn her soul to love , to unlock its secrets , and obtain free and unreserved admission into her heart . With Clementine he had more frequent converse , and often would they turn to some favorite subject ...
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... called to each other " She comes , she comes , " and began with one accord to sing to her their sweetest songs ; the young ones hung their little heads over the nest , to peep over at the angel that was passing by ; the butterfly ...
... called to each other " She comes , she comes , " and began with one accord to sing to her their sweetest songs ; the young ones hung their little heads over the nest , to peep over at the angel that was passing by ; the butterfly ...
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13 long 1st into 3rd 1st long stitch 1st Row 2nd long 2nd loop 2nd row 3rd loop 3rd Row 4-Thread 4th loop 9 long Amber Asila bead beautiful Berlin Wool Blue bright centre loop chain chain stitches child circles Clementine Colonel color commence Constance corner Cotton Crochet Hook darkest dream earth eyes Fanshaw feeling flowers forward gentle girl Green hand happy hath heart Hester Imogen knit lady last long last row lightest shade long in last long into 3rd long on long look Luigia Mesh mind miss 2 loops never o'er Ormington passion poor Ravensworth repeat from beginning ribs round Row.-1 long Row.-Next shade Row.-Pearl shades of Scarlet Shakespere side sing sister skeins smile song sorrow Steel stitch in last stripes sweet tears thee thing thou thought truth Violet voice White woman Wool words young
Popular passages
Page 53 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon. Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 386 - I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 380 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being. That done, he lets me go, And with his head over his shoulder turned He seemed to find his way without his eyes, For out o' doors he went without their help And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 321 - No, no, no life : Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you undo this button : thank you, sir.
Page 113 - 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 106 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 331 - Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.
Page 380 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 24 - And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.
Page 107 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...