The Ladies' Companion

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Bradbury and Evans, 1855
 

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Strana 197 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Strana 322 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Strana 25 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike; And like the sun. they shine on all alike.
Strana 260 - Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Strana 127 - I have sent books and music there, and all Those instruments with which high spirits call The future from its cradle, and the past Out of its grave, and make the present last In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, Folded within their own eternity.
Strana 236 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Strana 243 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Strana 243 - There's not a budding boy or girl this day But is got up, and gone to bring in May. A deal of youth, ere this, is come Back, and with white-thorn laden home. Some have...
Strana 244 - ... and flowers, and carry upon their heads, instead of their common milk-pails. In this equipage, accompanied by some of their fellow milk-maids and a bagpipe or fiddle, they go from door to door, dancing before the houses of their customers, in the midst of boys and girls that follow them in troops, and everybody gives them something.
Strana 219 - How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug ! — How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look ! — or stamped with the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper ! Look into companies of those whose gentle natures should disirm them, — we shall find no better account.

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