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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 388
1812
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The Adventures of a Roving Diplomatist

Henry Wikoff - 1857 - 356 pages
...exclusive possession of the President, who assumed the complacent demeanour of Captain Macheath— " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." The Republican party, all this while, avoided contact with the President, and frequented his fetes...
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Two Years Ago, Volume 3

Charles Kingsley - 1857 - 356 pages
...thanks to you. Val and I have done nothing but laugh all day long ; " and she began kissing him too. " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! " broke out Scoutbush. " What a pity it is now, that I should have two such sweet creatures making...
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The naval officer, Volume 192

Frederick Marryat - 1858 - 290 pages
...on board of a ship of the line, in which I was ordered to take my passage to England., CHAPTER IX. How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away ! BEGGAR'S OPERA. Pleasure and pain, in youth, are, for the most part, transient impressions, whether...
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Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volumes 31-32

1875 - 632 pages
...borrowing a lens from each, and whilst thus clouding their vision have sighed through divided affection, " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." &c. These potentates, uninterrupted, (or some time have been involved in an amiable war of words ;...
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The Master of the Hounds, Volume 2

Knightley William Horlock - 1859 - 318 pages
...there's no pop left in me, and then as to a choice—these lines are continually running in my head, ' How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away.' My sensitive and soft heart is ever receiving impressions, but the wax is always melting, for it aint...
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Beatrice; Or, Six Years of Childhood and Youth

Laura Valentine - 1859 - 256 pages
...abrupt little Bee together, what will you do with the pair, Carry ? You will be obliged to sing, " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away."' ' Ivfot at all, sir; harmony may exist without unison. Opposite characters suit best.' ' Which fact...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 12

1860 - 364 pages
...subject, published by two eminent men at the same time, is a case in point. With the poet we may say — " How happy could I be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." We have seen the same thing happen before. It happened with Kirby and Latreille. When Kirby brought...
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Temple Bar, Volume 54

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 pages
...rising she opened the piano, and sang with a voice that would have made the sulkiest man amiable — "How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." This musical interlude gave Joy and Stokes time to recover themselves. Jessie's sweet notes had scarcely...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pages
...and mouth, it is only to deliver himself of some such remark as, ' It seems to have been a case of "how happy could I be with either were 'tother dear charmer away ! " ' (laughter) ; or, ' It seems to have been a case of " when the cat's away the mice will play !...
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Man; Or, The Old and New Philosophy ...

Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1863 - 338 pages
...one, he considered it safer to be coffined in the other ; mindful, possibly, of the old song — " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." " I have heard," he tells us, in his " Letter on the present position of the High Church party in England,"...
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