... and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations. Lastly, her dreams are so chaste that she dare tell them ; only a Friday's dream is all her superstition ; that she conceals for... Our Young Folks - Pągina 7291872Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1819 - 426 pągines
...is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she ; and all her care is she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.' This is the season in which cheese is made ; the counties most celebrated for this article are Cheshire,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pągines
...a Fridaies dreame is all her superstition : that she conceales for feare of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet." Character.')!, sign. L. 7. From the copy in the Library of Sion College,... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pągines
...Thomas Overbury concludes his character of " the fair and the happy Milkmaid : " " Thus lived she, and all her care is that she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her windingsheet." Again, Shakspeare's Arviragus, in Cymbeline : — With fairest flowers.... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 852 pągines
...is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is, she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.* If men did but know what felicity dwells in the cottage of a virtuous poor man, — how sound he sleeps,... | |
| 1836 - 282 pągines
...remains. Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the " faire and happy milkmaid," observes, " thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may die in the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet." The poets, too, who always breathe the feeling of a nation, continually... | |
| John Brand - 1841 - 356 pągines
...Overhury, in his " Characters," descrihing the " faire and happy milk-maid," says : " Thus lived she, and all her care is that she may die in the spring-time, to hare store of flowers stucke upon her winding- sheet.'' A MS. entitled " Historical Passages concerning... | |
| Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pągines
...remains. Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the " faire and happy milkmaid," observes, " Thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may die in the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet." The poets, too, who always breathe the feeling of a nation, continually... | |
| Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1844 - 532 pągines
...Fridaie's dreame is all her superstition : that shee conceales for feare of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet." Character 51. sign. L. 7. From the copy in the Library of Sion College,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1844 - 512 pągines
...Fridaie's dreame is all her superstition : that shee conceales for feare of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet." Character 51. sign. L. 7. From the copy in the Library of Sion College,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pągines
...is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she ; and all her care is she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet." The love of the country has been sung by poets, and echoed by philosophers ; but the first have not... | |
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