Proverbial Folk-loreR.J. Clark, printer, High street, 1875 - 173 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 5
... young lady's somewhat pro- vocative demand , Because its ' the crookedest part of the body , ' was immediately her tutor's most ungallant answer ! This may be slightly counterbalance by that con- firmed bachelor Mr. Pope's somewhat ...
... young lady's somewhat pro- vocative demand , Because its ' the crookedest part of the body , ' was immediately her tutor's most ungallant answer ! This may be slightly counterbalance by that con- firmed bachelor Mr. Pope's somewhat ...
الصفحة 6
... Clara's a manager , she's born to rule , And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; For her own dinner she'll concoct a plan , Nor take her tea without a stratagem . - Dr . Young . Another of the kind will be found still more emphatic 6.
... Clara's a manager , she's born to rule , And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; For her own dinner she'll concoct a plan , Nor take her tea without a stratagem . - Dr . Young . Another of the kind will be found still more emphatic 6.
الصفحة 9
... young lady ' immortalized by the poet had not much to complain of . Also , When anything abounds , we find , That nobody will have it ; But when there's little of the kind Don't all the people crave it ! Thrice happy girl ! I hail thee ...
... young lady ' immortalized by the poet had not much to complain of . Also , When anything abounds , we find , That nobody will have it ; But when there's little of the kind Don't all the people crave it ! Thrice happy girl ! I hail thee ...
الصفحة 32
... young lady says in the old Scottish song , ' Tis hard to tak shelter behint a laigh dyke , " Tis hard to tak ane , we never can like , ' Tis hard to leave ane we fain would be wi " But its ' harder that a ' should be married but me ...
... young lady says in the old Scottish song , ' Tis hard to tak shelter behint a laigh dyke , " Tis hard to tak ane , we never can like , ' Tis hard to leave ane we fain would be wi " But its ' harder that a ' should be married but me ...
الصفحة 37
... young man's slave . or as Theodore Hook once wrote , as I am reminded by the Times Reviewer , Don't talk of hearts , Of flames and darts , Soon flattery turns to snarling : To pass my life , A happy wife , Make me an old man's darling ...
... young man's slave . or as Theodore Hook once wrote , as I am reminded by the Times Reviewer , Don't talk of hearts , Of flames and darts , Soon flattery turns to snarling : To pass my life , A happy wife , Make me an old man's darling ...
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الصفحة 165 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
الصفحة 61 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
الصفحة 106 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
الصفحة 118 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
الصفحة 109 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
الصفحة 25 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
الصفحة 94 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.
الصفحة 93 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
الصفحة 123 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
الصفحة 52 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'