The Argosy, Volume 16

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Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood
Strahan & Company, 1873
A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.
 

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Halaman 274 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Halaman 194 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Halaman 300 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with child-like, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Halaman 71 - Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; And like winds in summer sighing, Her voice is low and sweet; — Her voice is low and sweet, And she's a' the world to me: And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down and dee.
Halaman 297 - Cypresse Garlands are of great account at Funeralls amongst the gentiler sort, but Rosemary and Bayes are used by the Commons both at Funeralls and Weddings. They are all Plants which fade not a good while after they are gathered, and used (as I conceive) to intimate unto us that the remembrance of the present Solemnity might not dye presently, but be kept in minde for many yeares.
Halaman 342 - opportunity of instructing and exhorting those that were in company with him by the way...
Halaman 76 - Her throat is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on ; That e'er the sun shone on, And dark blue is her ee ; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me doun and dee. Like dew on the gowan lying, Is the fa...
Halaman 76 - twas there that Annie Laurie Gave me her promise true; Gave me her promise true, Which ne'er forgot will be, And for bonnie Annie Laurie, I'd lay me doon and dee.
Halaman 252 - This happy thought he carried out : and Tom Dance was no wiser than other people. When once deception is entered upon, the course is comparatively easy ; " ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute," say the French : and Mr. Walter Dance, truthful and honest though he loved to be, found himself quite an adept at farce-relating before the first day was over. Not that Tom Dance, wise in his nearly fifty years, took it all in unquestioningly.
Halaman 201 - Thomas left the kitchen without a word of reply, whilst his father composedly went on with his soup. Turning his back on the village, the young man crossed the bridge, and walked rapidly through the passee. The night, though moonlit, was tempestuous ; a strong gale came from the sea, and the tall trees moaned dismally, as Thomas walked beneath them. He met no one, though when he reached the river-bank that faces the island, he saw that the grass had been trodden and the bushes broken down. The plank...

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