 | Mrs. Molesworth - 1872 - 314 sider
...church. Now comes the queerest part of the story. Pray remember, I do not vouch for its correctness. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." — All this time, whether the fighting was over or not, nothing had been heard... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 178 sider
...unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. CANTO SECOND. 37 XXV. sun had brighten'd Cheviot grey, sun had brighten'd the Carter's... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sider
...! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! Canto ii. St. 10. 1 was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. St. 12. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 't was said to me. Canto ii. St. 22. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 224 sider
...O'Leary. " It may be so," replied his friend. "I do not answer for the reality of the story. ' I know not how the truth may be, I say the tale as 't was said to me.' " "If it be true," said Tibbot, "I think the worst part of the affair was the keeping it concealed... | |
 | M. C. Gray - 1874 - 338 sider
...attempting to exculpate either, or pretending to say which I think was the worst behaved of the two : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." And as I wish to "say" it with as little digression as I can help, I must not pause... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1875 - 638 sider
...writers had addressed themselves to a more peculiar and limited feeling, — to a * " Mettendo lo Tnrpin, lo metto anch' io," says Ariosto, playfully, when...cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me, " says the author of the " Lay " on a similar occasion. The resemblance might be... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sider
...1 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! Canto ii. St. 10. 1 was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. St. it. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as t was said to me. Canto ii. St. 22. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed... | |
 | Alfred Hayman Cummings - 1875 - 316 sider
...Trevergy, would have told a different tale ; for of him is related a story that is worth repeating — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." — SCOTT. A certain John Jewell, of Trevergy, in the parish of Cury, was a very... | |
 | Rev. James W. Taylor - 1875 - 420 sider
...enemy, the wizard caused the earth to yawn at that spot, and its yawning mouth has never been closed. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as was said to me.'' Local tradition connects the road which leads up to Balwearie with Sir Michael. It... | |
 | 1876 - 906 sider
...it difficult to paint the whipping scene to my mind's eye. I find it still harder to believe now. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." The fair Julia's handwriting is still extant. I have already hinted that she spelled... | |
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I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 
