The Drawing-room magazine: or, Ladies book of fancy needlework and choice literature1848 |
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... speak of the occupation - in bowery nook or other hallowed trysting place- of slender fingers that need so little the companionship of care- ful eyes : labor so little interrupting serious commune : excuse so valid for a longer rest or ...
... speak of the occupation - in bowery nook or other hallowed trysting place- of slender fingers that need so little the companionship of care- ful eyes : labor so little interrupting serious commune : excuse so valid for a longer rest or ...
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... speak . " Come Asila took her friend in her arms , and endeavoured to change her ideas , but Guttula only said , " Thou art good and pure , beloved Asila with thee I would willingly dwell , but not in this thy dark , dingy , noisy world ...
... speak . " Come Asila took her friend in her arms , and endeavoured to change her ideas , but Guttula only said , " Thou art good and pure , beloved Asila with thee I would willingly dwell , but not in this thy dark , dingy , noisy world ...
Page 48
... speak to him in many sorts of music , That will allow me very worth his service . And when a maiden's voice is sweet , there is nothing more beautiful on earth than the feeling she can throw into a bal- lad : the many sorts of music ...
... speak to him in many sorts of music , That will allow me very worth his service . And when a maiden's voice is sweet , there is nothing more beautiful on earth than the feeling she can throw into a bal- lad : the many sorts of music ...
Page 49
... speaking of man's affection . Their fancies are more giddy and unfirm , More longing , wavering , sooner lost and worn , Than women's are . Then again how truly has he caught the spirit with THE DRAWING - ROOM MAGAZINE . 49.
... speaking of man's affection . Their fancies are more giddy and unfirm , More longing , wavering , sooner lost and worn , Than women's are . Then again how truly has he caught the spirit with THE DRAWING - ROOM MAGAZINE . 49.
Page 53
... speaking of the strange idiosyn- cracies of childhood , told us that he used to take a great and painful delight in looking at a star - or rather , its reflection in the waters of a certain moat belonging to Fort George , in In ...
... speaking of the strange idiosyn- cracies of childhood , told us that he used to take a great and painful delight in looking at a star - or rather , its reflection in the waters of a certain moat belonging to Fort George , in In ...
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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...