 I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more, bear my destruction patiently, and with a heart like yourself.  The Retrospective Review - Page 3401820Full view - About this book
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1909 - 442 pages
...replete with the sincerest, tenderest passion, and is a model love letter : "You shall now receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember when I am gone. I would not by my will present... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - 1909 - 346 pages
...reveals the workings of his sorrowstricken heart, but gives no evidence of fear: "... You shall receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not with my... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1909 - 442 pages
...replete with the sincerest, tenderest passion, and is a model love letter : "You shall now receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember when I am gone. I would not by my will present... | |
 | John Presland - 1920 - 240 pages
...of his life, when awaiting execution, he wrote her a letter full of affection and tender regard : " You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words in...last lines ; my love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead. . . . First I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive or my words express... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1920 - 448 pages
...very different in tone from the one he had written to Cecil eleven years before: " You shall receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead: and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1920 - 448 pages
...receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead : and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my last Will, present you with sorrows, dear Besse. Let them go to the grave with... | |
 | Rennell Rodd - 1921 - 308 pages
...need for concealment, no interest to serve, no place more for hope or ambition. You shall receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not with my... | |
 | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - 1922 - 392 pages
...fain leave the world as a gentleman, and lie last of all in the place he loved : " You shall receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my... | |
 | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - 1922 - 410 pages
...fain leave the world as a gentleman, and lie last of all in the place he loved : " You shall receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...he wrote another letter to his wife which is hardly inferior to the first one : " You shall receive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you that you may keep it when I am dead, and my counsel that you may remember it when I am no more. " I would not with my... | |
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