The Drawing-room magazine: or, Ladies book of fancy needlework and choice literature1848 |
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Page 143
... rib- bon around her slender throat , and which had slipped away on her birthnight and gone no one knew where . Mary strongly accused a certain Lawrence Stainforth — an old friend and play- fellow , who she remembered now having made a ...
... rib- bon around her slender throat , and which had slipped away on her birthnight and gone no one knew where . Mary strongly accused a certain Lawrence Stainforth — an old friend and play- fellow , who she remembered now having made a ...
Page 67
... ribs , then decrease 1 rib by knitting 3 stitches in 1 , knit 48 ribs , decrease 1 rib as before , knit the remaining 16 ribs . Knit 84 ribs , decreasing on every 25th row in the same man- ner and place . In the next row , knit 5 ribs ...
... ribs , then decrease 1 rib by knitting 3 stitches in 1 , knit 48 ribs , decrease 1 rib as before , knit the remaining 16 ribs . Knit 84 ribs , decreasing on every 25th row in the same man- ner and place . In the next row , knit 5 ribs ...
Page 68
... ribs unknit at the end , and on every succeeding 2nd row leave 2 other ribs unknit , so that on the 27th row there will be 24 ribs , unknit at the end . Knit 80 rows . Cast off . Cuffs . Cast on with White 24 stitches , knit 94 rows ...
... ribs unknit at the end , and on every succeeding 2nd row leave 2 other ribs unknit , so that on the 27th row there will be 24 ribs , unknit at the end . Knit 80 rows . Cast off . Cuffs . Cast on with White 24 stitches , knit 94 rows ...
Page 99
... rib , but not either of the edge stitches . This is to form the rounded point . There will be 18 rows before all the stitches are taken up , but on the 10th row decrease on the 13th rib , then knit a rib , de- crease , knit 20 ribs ...
... rib , but not either of the edge stitches . This is to form the rounded point . There will be 18 rows before all the stitches are taken up , but on the 10th row decrease on the 13th rib , then knit a rib , de- crease , knit 20 ribs ...
Page 100
tinue knitting on the back , knit 1 rib , increase , knit 14 ribs increase , knit 1 rib increase . Knit 14 rows . Knit I rib , increase , knit 16 ribs , increase , knit 1 rib , increase . Knit 28 rows . Increase 1 rib each side of the ...
tinue knitting on the back , knit 1 rib , increase , knit 14 ribs increase , knit 1 rib increase . Knit 14 rows . Knit I rib , increase , knit 16 ribs , increase , knit 1 rib , increase . Knit 28 rows . Increase 1 rib each side of the ...
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13 long 1st into 3rd 1st long stitch 1st Row 2nd long 2nd loop 2nd row 3rd loop 3rd Row 4-Thread 4th loop 9 long Amber Asila bead beautiful Berlin Wool Blue bright centre loop chain chain stitches child circles Clementine Colonel color commence Constance corner Cotton Crochet Hook darkest dream earth eyes Fanshaw feeling flowers forward gentle girl Green hand happy hath heart Hester Imogen knit lady last long last row lightest shade long in last long into 3rd long on long look Luigia Mesh mind miss 2 loops never o'er Ormington passion poor Ravensworth repeat from beginning ribs round Row.-1 long Row.-Next shade Row.-Pearl shades of Scarlet Shakespere side sing sister skeins smile song sorrow Steel stitch in last stripes sweet tears thee thing thou thought truth Violet voice White woman Wool words young
Popular passages
Page 53 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon. Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 386 - I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 380 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being. That done, he lets me go, And with his head over his shoulder turned He seemed to find his way without his eyes, For out o' doors he went without their help And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 321 - No, no, no life : Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you undo this button : thank you, sir.
Page 113 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 106 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 331 - Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.
Page 380 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 24 - And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.
Page 107 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...