 | Alfred Hayman Cummings - Cury (England). - 1875 - 316 pages
...Trevergy, would have told a different tale ; for of him is related a story that is worth repeating — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." — SCOTT. A certain John Jewell, of Trevergy, in the parish of Cury, was a very superstitious man,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1875 - 708 pages
...lo Turpin, lo metto anch' io," says Ariosto, playfully, when he tells a particularly tough story. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me," savs the author of the " Lay" on a similar occasion. The resemblance might be traced much farther than... | |
 | Rev. James W. Taylor - Fife (Scotland) - 1875 - 420 pages
...enemy, the wizard caused the earth to yawn at that spot, and its yawning mouth has never been closed. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as was said to me.'' Local tradition connects the road which leads up to Balwearie with Sir Michael. It... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...1 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! Canto ii. St. 10. 1 was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. St. it. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as t was said to me. Canto ii. St. 22. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; In war, he mounts the... | |
 | Scotland - 1876 - 906 pages
...it difficult to paint the whipping scene to my mind's eye. I find it still harder to believe now. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." The fair Julia's handwriting is still extant. I have already hinted that she spelled badly, but that... | |
 | Francis Ellington Leupp - Washington (D.C.) - 1915 - 416 pages
...which appeared most probable or most picturesque, falling back upon the plea of the Last Minstrel : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." And now, let us be off ! FEL WASHINGTON, DC, August i, 1915. Contents PREFACE CHAPTER I. A CAPITAL... | |
 | Maine Federation of Women's Clubs - Maine - 1916 - 450 pages
...the same reason that the wise hostess saves the rarest bits for the dessert that follows the dinner. "I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Few of the visitors to the old town of Wiscasset realize that just across the bridge, in full view... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1916 - 166 pages
...CONCLUSION BY MIDSUMMER AND THUS RENDER A GREAT SERVICE TO CIVILIZATION. Mr. President — I can not tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. This came to my ears in such a way, with such a concurrence of testimony, with such internal and external... | |
 | Henry Albert Collins - 1918 - 234 pages
...Celebration 201 XLII Hallowe'en 206 XLIII The Wedding 211 XLIV The Fifth Anniversary 217 CHAPTER I A NEW DEAL I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me. —Sir Walter Scott. NA summer day as Reverend Elias Crawford and his good wife... | |
 | Abram Samuel Isaacs - American fiction - 1919 - 274 pages
...light, might have entered the book, to make it a divine blessing to old and young ? THE OLD SHOFAR I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. — Scott. It was told in cliff-crowned Seligstadt many years ago. Out there in the summer garden we... | |
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I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 
