The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw.] The Ladies' monthly magazine, The World of fashion [afterw.] Le Monde élégant; or The World of fashion, Band 46,Ausgabe 541

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1869

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Seite 18 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Seite 18 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Seite 5 - ... shaken. And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone. And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could sever, Yet, ere it reach the plain below, Breaks into floods,...
Seite 18 - You simple people," replied the Missionary, " how does every thing grow ? is it not by sowing seed!" They immediately shouted, " Oh, these English people! they sow seed upon a bald man's head to make the hair grow!" One shrewd fellow inquired whether he had brought any of the seed with him? The good Missionary carried on the joke for a short time, and then raised his wig. The revelation of his
Seite 18 - original head " of course drew forth a roar of laughter, which was greatly increased, when one of the natives shouted to some of his countrymen who were near, " Here, see Mr. , he has come from England with his head thatched; he has come from England with his head thatched!

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