 | 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 side; son beneath... | |
 | 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 to moralize on... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 sider
...and was too much practised in sea sights to be taken in by appearances. For myself — 1 I know not how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." THE HISTORY OF A WONDERFUL DIAMOND. THE KOH-I-NOOR. THE Koh-i-noor, or Mountain of Light, is stated... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Ellington Leupp - 1915 - 416 sider
...which appeared most probable or most picturesque, falling back upon the plea of the Last Minstrel : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." And now, let us be off ! FEL WASHINGTON, DC, August i, 1915. Contents PREFACE CHAPTER I. A CAPITAL... | |
 | Maine Federation of Women's Clubs - 1916 - 450 sider
...the same reason that the wise hostess saves the rarest bits for the dessert that follows the dinner. "I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Few of the visitors to the old town of Wiscasset realize that just across the bridge, in full view... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1916 - 166 sider
...CONCLUSION BY MIDSUMMER AND THUS RENDER A GREAT SERVICE TO CIVILIZATION. Mr. President — I can not tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. This came to my ears in such a way, with such a concurrence of testimony, with such internal and external... | |
 | Henry Albert Collins - 1918 - 234 sider
...Celebration 201 XLII Hallowe'en 206 XLIII The Wedding 211 XLIV The Fifth Anniversary 217 CHAPTER I A NEW DEAL I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me. —Sir Walter Scott. NA summer day as Reverend Elias Crawford and his good wife... | |
 | 1919 - 262 sider
...divergent branches of the family. Whether it should be taken cum grano salis, let the reader judge. "I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." After removing to North Carolina, the Lanes lived principally in the eastern section of the State.... | |
 | Abram Samuel Isaacs - 1919 - 274 sider
...light, might have entered the book, to make it a divine blessing to old and young ? THE OLD SHOFAR I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. — Scott. It was told in cliff-crowned Seligstadt many years ago. Out there in the summer garden we... | |
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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. 
