Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
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Soft heaps of snow, yielding, and fit to bear
Her faded figure. I observed her well: Her brow was fair, but _very_ pale, and look'd Like stainless marble; a touch methought would soil Its whiteness. O'er her temple one blue vein Ran like a tendril; one through her shadowy hand Branch'd like the fibre of a leaf--away. Her mouth was tremulous, and her cheek wore then A flush of beautiful vermilion, But more like art than nature; and her eye Spoke as became the youthful Magdalen, Dying and broken-hearted." G.J. DE WILDE. _Dodd's Church History_ (Vol. ii., p. 347).--G.R., who is good enough to speak of my edition of this work in a very flattering manner, presumes, and not unnaturally, from the lengthened period which has elapsed since the appearance of the last, or fifth volume, that its continuation "has for some reason or other been abandoned." I am glad, however, to inform him that such is not the case. Health, and other uncontrollable circumstances, have unfortunately interfered to impede the progress of the work; but that it is not abandoned, I hope, ere long, to give to him and to the public a practical evidence. M.A. TIERNEY. Arundel, Nov. 1850. _Blackwall Docks_ (Vol. i., pp. 141. 220.).--These, in Pepys' time, |
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