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... heart --- and lo ! -in another hour -and without a night - cap , this angelic vision was transformed into a starched , prim , sharp old maid of a waiting woman - who accused me , forsooth , of having stolen her rings ! And it ac- tually ...
... heart --- and lo ! -in another hour -and without a night - cap , this angelic vision was transformed into a starched , prim , sharp old maid of a waiting woman - who accused me , forsooth , of having stolen her rings ! And it ac- tually ...
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... 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 off from her chamber , as ...
... 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 off from her chamber , as ...
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... hearts about me ! Now the tables are turned , and by a little Swiss peasant , ( for such is her origin ) , though her pa- troness gave her a good education ; and from having been with her a great many years in Eng- land , she speaks ...
... hearts about me ! Now the tables are turned , and by a little Swiss peasant , ( for such is her origin ) , though her pa- troness gave her a good education ; and from having been with her a great many years in Eng- land , she speaks ...
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... heart , than any being she ever knew . ' Even the old Doctor says , and he is not in love with her , that ' Mademoiselle Carline is a most extraordinary and superior young woman . ' Would that she had not been a waiting maid ! I am ...
... heart , than any being she ever knew . ' Even the old Doctor says , and he is not in love with her , that ' Mademoiselle Carline is a most extraordinary and superior young woman . ' Would that she had not been a waiting maid ! I am ...
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... heart . ' ' Your wisdom for once , Lindsay - like mine always comes too late ; for my heart is already ' lost and won . ' Nay then ! -what ! is it come to that ? -Has ' the Jungfrau ' * broken your head , and a Jungfrau your heart ...
... heart . ' ' Your wisdom for once , Lindsay - like mine always comes too late ; for my heart is already ' lost and won . ' Nay then ! -what ! is it come to that ? -Has ' the Jungfrau ' * broken your head , and a Jungfrau your heart ...
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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!