The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... young pulses bounding with delight at the sight of beauty , and experience a thousand sensations which impel us to an intimate intercourse of hearts with our fellow - crea- tures ; and the first thing we are taught in life , is to ...
... young pulses bounding with delight at the sight of beauty , and experience a thousand sensations which impel us to an intimate intercourse of hearts with our fellow - crea- tures ; and the first thing we are taught in life , is to ...
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... Young men are edu- cated with the view to making or increasing their fortune by marriage ; and young women , with no other idea than that of forming an establishment . This is , perhaps , more applicable to the latter than to the former ...
... Young men are edu- cated with the view to making or increasing their fortune by marriage ; and young women , with no other idea than that of forming an establishment . This is , perhaps , more applicable to the latter than to the former ...
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... young heart seldom giv way to warm and generous impulses , without finding son one heartless enough to take advantage of these young ar inexperienced feelings ; and who having excited , too ofte betrays them by desertion . A young man ...
... young heart seldom giv way to warm and generous impulses , without finding son one heartless enough to take advantage of these young ar inexperienced feelings ; and who having excited , too ofte betrays them by desertion . A young man ...
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... young heart , " sick with deferred hope , " till he quits it to weep that it should have devoted its earliest , purest , and best feelings to such a worthless coxcomb . There is , however , a medium between the coldness of mere ...
... young heart , " sick with deferred hope , " till he quits it to weep that it should have devoted its earliest , purest , and best feelings to such a worthless coxcomb . There is , however , a medium between the coldness of mere ...
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... young Agnes . Perhaps , at this moment , her memory glanced back to the time when her own heart leaped and bounded with all the young ener- gies of incipient feeling ; -when the tear of pity , or the smile of gladness , was always ready ...
... young Agnes . Perhaps , at this moment , her memory glanced back to the time when her own heart leaped and bounded with all the young ener- gies of incipient feeling ; -when the tear of pity , or the smile of gladness , was always ready ...
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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...