The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... human nature have been repressed and spoiled by the coldness of those outward forms which constitute so great a proportion of our educa- tion ! We enter into the world with buoyant feelings , fresh and " thick - coming fancies ...
... human nature have been repressed and spoiled by the coldness of those outward forms which constitute so great a proportion of our educa- tion ! We enter into the world with buoyant feelings , fresh and " thick - coming fancies ...
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... human nature , as it is called , at whose shrine all our best . feelings are sacrificed , and to which our young hearts are directed in school - days , at college , and through the world , as the only God that should be worshipped . The ...
... human nature , as it is called , at whose shrine all our best . feelings are sacrificed , and to which our young hearts are directed in school - days , at college , and through the world , as the only God that should be worshipped . The ...
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... human nature , to think upon the many hearts immolated upon the shrine which the selfishness of relations creates ; and upon the thousand schemes which are successful only in too many instances to subject their victims to temptations ...
... human nature , to think upon the many hearts immolated upon the shrine which the selfishness of relations creates ; and upon the thousand schemes which are successful only in too many instances to subject their victims to temptations ...
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... human nature , as to be trammelled with perpetual ceremony , and to be com- pelled to watch one's looks and words with a lynx - eyed at- tention , lest something escape that may not be strictly correct according to the established code ...
... human nature , as to be trammelled with perpetual ceremony , and to be com- pelled to watch one's looks and words with a lynx - eyed at- tention , lest something escape that may not be strictly correct according to the established code ...
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... human under- standing , yet unblotted by the sad experience of life . It is an assemblage of lips and hearts unacquainted with worldly VOL . I. - 5 sorrow or guilty pleasure , dancing over paths of flowers THE ROUÉ . 49.
... human under- standing , yet unblotted by the sad experience of life . It is an assemblage of lips and hearts unacquainted with worldly VOL . I. - 5 sorrow or guilty pleasure , dancing over paths of flowers THE ROUÉ . 49.
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Page 53 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 234 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 231 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 156 - I render you ; Only, this one : — Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see.
Page 72 - Which come, in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 223 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.
Page 212 - To charm me with thy softness : 'tis in vain : Thou can'st no more betray, nor I be ruin'd. The hours of folly, and of fond delight, Are wasted all, and fled ; those that remain Are doom'd to weeping, anguish, and repentance.
Page 226 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 84 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII She knew the Latin — that is, 'the Lord's prayer...
Page 241 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...