 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1845 - 378 sider
...that of the quality, and accordingly adopted the name Headlong, the appropriate epithet of waterfall. I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as ' t was said to me. The present representative of this ancient and dignified house, Harry Headlong,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 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...the Father said, "And when we are on death-bed laid, 0 may our dear Ladye, and sweet St. John, Forgive our souls for the deed we have done!"— The Monk... | |
 | 1845 - 480 sider
...vaunted fame, And praiseless 'mid their universal praise ! THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.* A YARN OF THE CAPE. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Lag of the Last Minstrel. FROM the earliest ages superstition has been found a prevailing feature in... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 374 sider
...lo Turpin, lo metto anch* io," says 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... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 sider
...said, than for the good things she did, it is fair to presume that the club was a right merry one. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." The caterer also was drawn from the theatre in the person of Richard Estcourt, the comedian who is... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 332 sider
...FRIEND'S STORY. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE GAMBLER'S WIFE," "DAUGHTERS," "SYBIL LENNARD," &c. &c. &c. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as t'was said to me." SCOTT. VOL. II. LONDON : TC NEWBY, 72, MORTIMER STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. 1848. ALINE. CHAPTER I. "... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 sider
...FRIEND'S STORY. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE GAMBLER'S WIFE," "DAUGHTERS," "SYBIL LENNARD," &c. &c. &c. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as t'was said to me." SCOTT. VOL. I. LONDON: TC NEWBY, 72, MORTIMER STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. 1848. ALINE. CHAPTER I " Ye... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 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 't was said to me. XXIII. '' Now, hie thee hence," the Father said, "And when we are on death-bed laid,... | |
 | 1866 - 674 sider
...ACHEKTE. [Our apology for the following reply to this query must be that of Sir Walter Scott : — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me,"— which is, that an ignorant official connected with the American Congress, whose duty it was to check... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 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. THE TRIAL OF CONSTANCE. While round the fire such legends go, Far different was the scene of wo, Where,... | |
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Loud 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 tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 
