Sunnyside papers, by Andrew Halliday |
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Page 10 - Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — • Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.
Page 77 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes O ; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O.
Page 52 - A gentle, amiable, ever-yielding creature, who has no joy in her family affairs which she does not share with man. We rob her of her children that we may rob her of her milk, and we only care for her that the robbery may be perpetuated.
Page 55 - ... Sebastian would not take offence. He answered mildly, " He was pleased to express his approval of my humble effort, and to admit me into his noble household; where, except my poor exertions to amuse and untire him by my conversation may be accounted a service, I am of no service to him whatever." " So you are clad in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day," said Juan, with contempt that he cared not to conceal.
Page 105 - ... have now become easy and natural. Viewing such a wealth of female beauty, and seeing on every hand so many charming faces and graceful figures, I am sometimes disposed to look at our girls, as the Scottish maiden looked at love —in the abstract.
Page 66 - Charta, nor bill of rights, nor habeas corpus, had invaded the sphere of his dominion. He was judge, jury, witness, and executioner, all in one. The good mother, Queen Philippa, might plead for the offenders; but their pardon was granted to her as a favour, not as a right. I am not very old, but I can remember the time when almost every father in Great Britain kept a strap, or a cane, for the special purpose of correcting his children. I had one of the kindest, fondest, most indulgent fathers that...
Page 159 - I have reason to believe that it is a very pleasant country to live in. I have heard that it is the pride of the ocean; the home of the brave and the free.
Page 183 - as testimonies of the high esteem in which they held him as a man, and of the unbounded confidence they placed in him as an officer.
Page 73 - Dickens.] [September 2, 1865.] 135 their age, and could reach to their fathers' hearts. Hearts, indeed, came into vogue in place of hats, and coats, and frills, and suchlike attributes of paternity. Nature, so long tied and bound, managed to free some of her limbs from the cords of the senseless custom which had so long restrained her. When her arms were loosed, it was only like herself that she should embrace her child. The British father has undergone a great metamorphosis of late years. He has...
Page 109 - It is really wonderful, under such circumstances, that these women should retain so much humanity, that the fire of love should not have been quenched in their lonely hearts, that the milk of human kindness should not have dried up in their breasts long ago. We should be thankful to Heaven for these maiden aunts of ours : they are a legion of angels upon earth, for ever hovering about us, to pity and to succour.