The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 3H. Melville, 1834 - Tasmania |
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... This night in heaven I saw him lie , Discontented with his bliss ; And on my lips he left this kiss , For thee to taste , and then to die ' C Vol . III . No. XIII . THE DYING GIRL . Lay me beside my mother , Song . Song Song.
... This night in heaven I saw him lie , Discontented with his bliss ; And on my lips he left this kiss , For thee to taste , and then to die ' C Vol . III . No. XIII . THE DYING GIRL . Lay me beside my mother , Song . Song Song.
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THE DYING GIRL . Lay me beside my mother , Pillow me on her breast , That she who oft hath sheltered me May once more shield my rest . I would not die away from home , And have a stranger's hand To make my grave my last sad couch , In a ...
THE DYING GIRL . Lay me beside my mother , Pillow me on her breast , That she who oft hath sheltered me May once more shield my rest . I would not die away from home , And have a stranger's hand To make my grave my last sad couch , In a ...
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... girl my eyes ever rested on . Apparently senseless , she was stretched on her bed , like those of whom we read in fairy tales , transformed to marble , but the heaving breast , throbbing rapidly , yet faintly , beneath the light drapery ...
... girl my eyes ever rested on . Apparently senseless , she was stretched on her bed , like those of whom we read in fairy tales , transformed to marble , but the heaving breast , throbbing rapidly , yet faintly , beneath the light drapery ...
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... girl , and apparently defending her from the assault of an angry young man , who was extremely clamorous in his abuse of my cousin . I was at no loss to discover the real state of the case : -my gay cousin had persuaded the young lady ...
... girl , and apparently defending her from the assault of an angry young man , who was extremely clamorous in his abuse of my cousin . I was at no loss to discover the real state of the case : -my gay cousin had persuaded the young lady ...
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... girls sparkled when he looked on them . But he treated them all with the stern indifference of a warrior , until he saw Soonseetah raise her long dark eyelash . Then his heart melted beneath the beaming of beauty . Soonseetah was the ...
... girls sparkled when he looked on them . But he treated them all with the stern indifference of a warrior , until he saw Soonseetah raise her long dark eyelash . Then his heart melted beneath the beaming of beauty . Soonseetah was the ...
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Page 187 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 159 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king!
Page 46 - And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle Spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies...
Page 45 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 196 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 158 - It is a father's tale. But if that Heaven Should give me life, his childhood shall grow up Familiar with these songs, that with the night He may associate joy ! — Once more, farewell, Sweet nightingale ! Once more, my friends, farewell...
Page 29 - Tis sweet to hear the merry lark, That bids a blithe good-morrow; But sweeter to hark, in the twinkling dark, To the soothing song of sorrow. Oh nightingale! What doth she ail? And is she sad or jolly? For ne'er on earth was sound of mirth So like to melancholy. The merry lark, he soars on high, No worldly thought o'ertakes him; He sings aloud to the clear blue sky, And the daylight that awakes him.
Page 218 - TAFFY was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not at home ; Taffy came to my house and stole a marrow-bone.
Page 155 - I could distinguish by a telescope every sail, the general rig of the ship, and its particular character; insomuch that I confidently pronounced it to be my father's ship the Fame, which it afterwards proved to be; though, on comparing notes with my father, I found that our relative position at the time gave our distance from one another very nearly thirty miles, being about seventeen miles beyond the horizon, and some leagues beyond the limit of direct vision.
Page 158 - He knows well The evening -star; and once, when he awoke In most distressful mood (some inward pain Had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream -) I hurried with him to our...