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apartment Audley Somers Audley's Bamber Baronet beautiful believe beside better bless bosom breath brow Charley cheeks cheerful child clasped Colonel Werter corridor countenance cried dead dear door Earl De Burg entered eyes face Fairfield fear feel felt Fitzroy Florence footsteps Frederick Norcott gaze hair hand happiness Harriet Thompson Hastings head heard heart heaven hour husband Ivy Tower John Gorman knew Lady Travers Lady Winlow ladyship laughed Letitia Horace Lily Werter Lily's Lilymount Lincondoon lips listened London Bridge look Loui Louisa Major Somers marriage Miss morning mother murder murmured never night once passed passion paused poor racter replied Rettie returned Rosaline round SAMUEL DANIEL scarcely servant Sir Gordon Sir Winfred sister smile sorrow soul speak spoke stood tears thought took turned usurer voice wedding whispered wife William Lindley woman words wretched young
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Page 157 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 329 - gins to show his glorious head. Hark, how the cheerful birds do chant their lays And carol of love's praise. The merry lark her matins sings aloft; The thrush replies; the mavis descant plays; The ouzel shrills; the ruddock warbles soft; So goodly all agree, with sweet consent, To this day's merriment.
Page 141 - They wore in courtship's smilmg day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone...
Page 141 - A breath, a touch like this has shaken. And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone...
Page 296 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot; Who do thy work and know it not; Oh!
Page 141 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 243 - I came provided For storms and tempests, and the foulest season That ever rage let forth, or blew in wildness From the incensed prison of man's blood.
Page 5 - Why was my breeding order'd and prescribed As of a person separate to God, Design'd for great exploits, if I must die Betray'd, captived, and both my eyes put out, Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze, To grind in brazen fetters under task With this heaven-gifted strength?
Page 141 - And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could sever, Yet ere it reach the plain below, Breaks into floods that part for ever.
Page 288 - To their wisdoms Who are to be spectators of thine end I make the reference : those that are dead Are dead ; had they not now died, of necessity They must have paid the debt they owed to nature One time or other.