This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... still there's no occasion for you to be so distressingly frank about it. You were too reserved about your idiotic dogs and ponies, and now you fly to the opposite extreme. Why, if you hadn't told me, I shouldn't have known but you had written it in the album of your own sweetheart and also in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... still there's no occasion for you to be so distressingly frank about it. You were too reserved about your idiotic dogs and ponies, and now you fly to the opposite extreme. Why, if you hadn't told me, I shouldn't have known but you had written it in the album of your own sweetheart and also in the albums of every other fellow's sweetheart. Let's see it.--Hum; just ' Verse for an Album, ' when you might have given it a heading longer than the 'pome ' itself. Attention!--" ' Why should you ask me for my name, When I would give you heart and hand, And all I have at my command, You so have set my soul aflame.' " Now, as you haven't written it, you say, in any importunate--or rather unfortunate----person's album, here is your golden opportunity--DON'T! Next year about this time you might find out that by some terrible mistake you had inadvertently written it in the wrong young lady's album.--Is this the best you have? Have you no pastorals or madrigals 2" " I will show you one more poem, sir; but it is incomplete, too, and I don't know what classification it would come under." " You seem to have a penchant for leaving your poems at sixes and sevens. Vulgarly speaking, you bite off Inore than you can chew. Well, let me 'review' it for you; and if we can't call it a sonnet we'll call it alyric.--" ' Brave heart! thou manfully didst hope, Through five long, weary, bitter years; With giant difiiculties cope, Though racked by ceaseless madd'ning fears. " ' Sad days did but succeed sad days, But now, true heart, all such are past; The glad sun darts resplendent rays, ...
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Toronto. Published by Warwick & Sons. 1889
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16851155997
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12mo. 19cm, 385p., original light green cloth, gilt stamped titles and black stamped decorations, beveled boards, a very good to fine copy (ca. ds). Stories, tales, essays and poetry.
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Very Good- 8vo 8"-9" tall; 423 pages; HC in original green cloth with boards bevelled on edges and titles stamped in gilt to cover and spine. Cloth a bit rubbed at tips and over spine edges; gilt titling to spine a little dulled. Binding sound and square. An unusual collection of anecdotes, stories and poems-many set in the western " frontier" areas. VG-to VG.
