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D. Nutt, 1894 - 243 страници

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Страница 115 - And work their lives' decay. So that the pretty speech they had, Made murder's heart relent : And they that undertook the deed, Full sore did now repent. Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch that hired him, Had paid him very large. The...
Страница 111 - THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD. Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words which I shall write ; A doleful story you shall hear, In time brought forth to light.
Страница 117 - He pawn'd and mortgaged all his land Ere seven years came about, And now at length this wicked act Did by this means come out : The fellow that did take in hand These children for to kill, Was for a robbery judged to die, Such was God's blessed will.
Страница 112 - But if the children chance to die, Ere they to age should come, Their uncle should possess their wealth; For so the will did run. "Now, brother...
Страница 59 - I've a little dog at home, and he'll know me ; If it be I, he'll wag his little tail, And if it be not I, he'll loudly bark and wail.
Страница 111 - And both possessed one grave. No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kind ; In love they lived, in love they died. And left two babes behind. The one a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old ; The other a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould.
Страница 14 - Now, lass, say thy prayers, for tha must dee.' But she said : Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming ! 0 father, hast brought my golden ball And come to set me free ? I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree.
Страница 168 - A greedy dog! Why, what did he get that he liked so well? STEWARD. Horse-flesh, sir ; he died of eating horse-flesh. MR. G. How came he to get so much horse-flesh? STEWARD. All your father's horses, sir. MR. G. What, are they dead, too? STEWARD. Ay, sir ; they died of overwork.
Страница 115 - Made murderers' hearts relent ; And they that undertook the deed Full sore they did repent. Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge ; Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large. The other...
Страница 115 - These pretty Babes with hand in hand Went wandering up and down; But never more they saw the Man Approaching from the Town. In both these stanzas the words, and the order of the words, in no respect differ from the most unimpassioned conversation. There are words in both, for example, ' the Strand,

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