 | Thomas Hood - 1833 - 322 ページ
...twenty-six Lithographic Views taken on the spot, and drawn on Stone by G. JONES. Price 10s. 6d. in cloth. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas told to me. " SCOTT. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE VAUDOIS. Ina series of Twelve Views, engraved by EDWARD FINDI:N,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 ページ
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot...Father said, " And, when we are on death-bed laid, O may our dear Ladye, and sweet /3t. John, Forgive our souls for the deed we have done !" — The Monk... | |
 | 1832 - 448 ページ
...DAMYNIS, AD 1449. But the En rs have not had this boast entirely to themselves. " In the year 1808, < I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale, as 'twas said to me.' " A captain of artillery resided in the ordnance barrack in the town of E . His wife, an Italian lady,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 684 ページ
...!" L. PLUNDER CREEK.—1783. ^ A Legend of New York. ^_^~ BY THE AUTHOR OP "TALES OF AN ANTIQUARY." I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me.—SCOTT. THE reader perhaps scarcely requires to be reminded, that an acknowledgment of the independence... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 ページ
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot...truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. XX11L " Now, hie thee hence," the father said) "And, when we are on death-bed laid, О may our dear... | |
 | 508 ページ
...before the hounds were laid on, and this they accomplished to the satisfaction of every one present : " I cannot tell how the truth may be: I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Many may be found to doubt the deed ; but for my own part I see nothing wonderful or improbable in... | |
 | 1838 - 728 ページ
...Turpin, lo metto anch' io," •ays Ariosto, playfully, when he tells a particularly tough story. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 't was said to me," says the author of the " Lay," on a similar occasion. The resemblance might be... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 618 ページ
...Turpin, lo metto anch' io," fayf Ariosto, playfully, when he tells a particularly tough story. " T cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 't was said to me," says the author of the " Lay," on a similar occasion. The resemblance might be... | |
 | Joseph Snowe - 1839 - 508 ページ
...neighbourhood of Brey ; the only spot, perhaps, on the river, where she is believed to be still visible. " I cannot tell how the truth may be — I say the tale as 'twas said to me." The first tradition on record, of the fair spirit who haunts " the depths of the waters cold," relates... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1849 - 522 ページ
...portrait taken ; and the next time you honour me with your company, I will have it taken, sir." But— " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Mr. Lowndes never looks so comfortable as on his old chesnut mare : she never makes a mistake, is a... | |
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Tis said, as through the aisles they pass'd, They heard strange noises on the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man; As if... 
