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... room , which I had taken away from hers by mistake , instead of my own , having gone to give her a light , allured by her syren voice while she called for one at the top of the stairs ; and she produced , SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER .
... room , which I had taken away from hers by mistake , instead of my own , having gone to give her a light , allured by her syren voice while she called for one at the top of the stairs ; and she produced , SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER .
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... Give , O give me back my heart ! For back came my heart of itself , the moment I saw , without night - cap or candle - light -- the ' maid ' to whom I had given it . I offered her back , at the same time , a red garter I had car- ried ...
... Give , O give me back my heart ! For back came my heart of itself , the moment I saw , without night - cap or candle - light -- the ' maid ' to whom I had given it . I offered her back , at the same time , a red garter I had car- ried ...
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... gives a very echo to the seat Where Love is thron'd . It is heaven itself to hear it . It would still the most angry passions to rest . It breathes from all that is dearest , sweetest , most angelic in wo- man's gentle nature . It is ...
... gives a very echo to the seat Where Love is thron'd . It is heaven itself to hear it . It would still the most angry passions to rest . It breathes from all that is dearest , sweetest , most angelic in wo- man's gentle nature . It is ...
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... give - I feel easy on that point . Lady Hunlocke has made out that he is Breadalbane of Breadalbane , nephew and heir presumptive of Lord Rosemount , just coming of age and into possession of a large paternal pro- perty in Fifeshire ...
... give - I feel easy on that point . Lady Hunlocke has made out that he is Breadalbane of Breadalbane , nephew and heir presumptive of Lord Rosemount , just coming of age and into possession of a large paternal pro- perty in Fifeshire ...
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... give way to it , as you do . ' 6 Why , you are in love still - so what better do you do ? ' Tear myself from the object of my attach- ment , though it rends my heart asunder ! -Sub- mit to misery rather than dishonour ! ' ' Dishonour ...
... give way to it , as you do . ' 6 Why , you are in love still - so what better do you do ? ' Tear myself from the object of my attach- ment , though it rends my heart asunder ! -Sub- mit to misery rather than dishonour ! ' ' Dishonour ...
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Page 185 - 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 57 - Love Can fortune's strong impediments remove ; Nor is it strange that worth should wed to worth. The pride of genius with the pride of birth.
Page 138 - What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene; But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ; And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight.
Page 243 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 193 - Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tis good to be honest and true, 'Tis good to be off with the old love Before you be on with the new.
Page 103 - And I another, So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance To mend it or be rid on't.
Page 103 - Sad is my fate! said the heart-broken stranger, The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee; But I have no refuge from famine and danger, — A home and a country remain not to me.
Page 197 - What it is to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah, lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each evening repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn ; I have bade my dear Phyllis farewell.
Page 156 - Would throw in shades her yet unrivall'd name, And dim the lustre of her fairest page! And glows the flame of Liberty so strong In this lone speck of earth ! this spot obscure, Shaggy with woods, and crusted o'er with rock, By slaves surrounded, and by slaves oppress'd!