The Roué, Volume 1J. and J. Harper, 1828 |
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... eyes at a tale of distress ; and while The world to our unpractised hearts A flattering prospect shows ; Our fancy forms a thousand schemes Of gay delights and golden dreams , And undisturb'd repose : we find our young pulses bounding ...
... eyes at a tale of distress ; and while The world to our unpractised hearts A flattering prospect shows ; Our fancy forms a thousand schemes Of gay delights and golden dreams , And undisturb'd repose : we find our young pulses bounding ...
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... our late travellers to th le , beautiful to the eye , but enclosed in an icicl netling destroys them . * * Capt . Lyon's Journal , CHAPTER I. A CONTRAST . -girl , so cold and Let a sound judgment be placed as a sentin ...
... our late travellers to th le , beautiful to the eye , but enclosed in an icicl netling destroys them . * * Capt . Lyon's Journal , CHAPTER I. A CONTRAST . -girl , so cold and Let a sound judgment be placed as a sentin ...
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... eye turned towards the door with an approving glance at a fine fair - haired girl of eleven , who walked quietly and demurely into the room , and dropping a D'Egville curtsey at her entrance , made the round of the table ; turning first ...
... eye turned towards the door with an approving glance at a fine fair - haired girl of eleven , who walked quietly and demurely into the room , and dropping a D'Egville curtsey at her entrance , made the round of the table ; turning first ...
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... eyes . Perhaps , too , her imagina- tion traced , with that power which it has of collecting and remembering the events and condensing results of whole years into the space of a moment , the long series of coldness by which all these ...
... eyes . Perhaps , too , her imagina- tion traced , with that power which it has of collecting and remembering the events and condensing results of whole years into the space of a moment , the long series of coldness by which all these ...
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... Amelia sat apparently an at- tentive spectator ; but her cold and beautiful blue eye denoted no sympathy with the scene ; her countenance betrayed no VOL . I. - 2 wonder at the tricks of the pantomime ; nor could THE ROUÉ . 13.
... Amelia sat apparently an at- tentive spectator ; but her cold and beautiful blue eye denoted no sympathy with the scene ; her countenance betrayed no VOL . I. - 2 wonder at the tricks of the pantomime ; nor could THE ROUÉ . 13.
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Page 199 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 238 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 55 - 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 88 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 74 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling 'round it still.
Page 160 - 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, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 88 - 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,
Page 10 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 245 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...
Page 227 - ... 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.