 you his blowed and turned to mine. Our maid. Betty tells me, that if' I go backwards without speaking a word ‘into ‘the. garden upon Midsummer eve, and gather a rose, and keep it in a clean sheet of paper, without looking at it till Christmas day,...  The British Essayists - Strona 28pod redakcją - 1807Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Timbs - 1832 - Liczba stron: 344
...or wife. This custom, a relic of Druidical times, is thus mentioned in the Connoisew, No. 50:—"Our maid Betty tells me, that if I go backwards, without...speaking a word, into the garden upon Midsummer Eve, mid gather a rose, and keen it in a clean sheet of paper, without looking at it till Christmas Day,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - Liczba stron: 274
...husband or wife. In the Connoisseur, No. 50, we read : " Our maid Betty tells me that if I go backward without speaking a word into the garden upon Midsummer...looking at it till Christmas Day, it will be as fresh as in June ; and if I then stick it in my bosom, he that is to be my husband will come and take it out."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - Liczba stron: 296
...husband or wife. In the Comwitseur, No. 50, we read : "Our maid Betty tells me that if I go backward without speaking a word into the garden upon Midsummer...looking at it till Christmas Day, it will be as fresh as in June; and if I then stick it in my bosom, he that is to be my husband will come and take it out."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - Liczba stron: 338
...giants from being eaten by the rats." In the Connoisseur of the middle of the last century we read: "Our maid Betty tells me, that if I go backwards,...looking at it till Christmas Day, it will be as fresh as in June; and if I then stick it in my bosom, he that is to be my husband will come and take it out."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - Liczba stron: 348
...giants from being eaten by the rats." In the Connoisseur of the middle of the last century we read: "Our maid Betty tells me, that if I go backwards,...clean sheet .of paper, without looking at it till Christinas Day, it will be as fresh as in June; and if I then stick it in my bosom, he that is to be... | |
 | John Timbs - 1866 - Liczba stron: 346
...giants from being eaten by the rats." In the Connoisseur of the middle of the last century we read: " Our maid Betty tells me, that if I go backwards, without...looking at it till Christmas Day, it will be as fresh as in June; and if I then stick it in my bosom, he that is to be my husband will come and take it out."... | |
 | Nathan Boughton Warren - 1868 - Liczba stron: 274
...never have come together ; but I assure you his bowed and turned to mine. Our maid Betty tells me, if I go backwards, without speaking a word, into the...of paper, without looking at it till Christmas Day, 1 The same superstition is referred to in Burns' Hallmoeen: — " Hemp.seed, I saw thee ; An' her that... | |
 | Omens - 1868 - Liczba stron: 210
...and is thus mentioned in the Connoisseur, No. 50:" Our maid Betty tells me, that if I go backward, without speaking a word, into the garden, upon Midsummer...a clean sheet of paper, without looking at it till Christmas-day, it will be as fresh as in June; and if I then stick it in ray bosom, he that is to be... | |
 | 1887 - Liczba stron: 726
...should never come together ; but I assure you his bowed and turned to mine. Our maid, Betty, tells me if I go backwards without speaking a word into the...in a clean sheet of paper, without looking at it, until Christmas Day, it will be as fresh as in June, and if I then stick it in my bosom he that is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1885 - Liczba stron: 886
...saw him behind me, as plain as eyes could see him." And she adds, as another wrinkle to her sex, " Our maid Betty tells me that if I go backwards, without...looking at it till Christmas Day, it will be as fresh as in June ; and if I then stick it in my bosom, he that is to be my husband willcome and take it out."... | |
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