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" Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the " faire and happy milkmaid," observes, "thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet. "
Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and ... - Page 239
by William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 672 pages
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...be paid to his remains. Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the " faire and happy milkmaid," observes, " thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may...spring time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding sheet." The poets, too, who always breathe the feeling of a nation, continually advert to this...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...be paid to his remains. Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the " faire and happy milkmaid," observes, " thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may...spring time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding sheet." The poets, too, who always breathe the feeling of a nation, continually advert to this...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...is all her superstition; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is, she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet." The character of " A Serving-Man" is of a very different cast from the...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...is all her superstition ; that she couceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is, she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet." The character of " A Serving-Man" is of a very different cast from the...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is, she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet." The following beautiful description of a country house, is from an old...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...to his re- . mains. Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the « faire and happy milkmaid, » observes, « thus lives she, and all her care is, that' she may...spring time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding sheet.» The poets, too, who always breathe the feeling of a nation, continually advert to...
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The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Estensively ...

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...dare tell them: only a Fridaies dreame is all her superstition: that she conceales for feare of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding-sheet." Character 51. sign. L. 7. prom...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 3

1824 - 394 pages
...is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is, she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding sheet. WITTY EXPEDIENT OF JEsop, once by his wit, t-xIrknUed hU master from...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...is all her superstition ; that she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is, she may die in the spring time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet." , The character of " A Serving-Man" is of a very different cast from...
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The Mental Guide: Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics ...

Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...be paid to his remains. Sir Thomas Overbury, describing the " faire and happy milkmaid," observes, " thus lives she, and all her care is, that she may...spring time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her winding sheet." The poets, too, who always breathe the feeling of a nation, continually advert to this...
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