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... - nance , and tore the veil from my foolish eyes ? Did we not meet with joy , spend our time hap- pily , and part cheerily , because we transgressed no duty , and incurred no self - reproach ? PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 17.
... - nance , and tore the veil from my foolish eyes ? Did we not meet with joy , spend our time hap- pily , and part cheerily , because we transgressed no duty , and incurred no self - reproach ? PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 17.
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Walter Scott. no duty , and incurred no self - reproach ? Bring back that state of happy ignorance , and you shall have no reason to call me unkind . But while you form schemes which I know to be imaginary , and use language of such ...
Walter Scott. no duty , and incurred no self - reproach ? Bring back that state of happy ignorance , and you shall have no reason to call me unkind . But while you form schemes which I know to be imaginary , and use language of such ...
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... duty bet- ter . Hear if I ever asked another youngster into the house , save himself for I knew your honour was wise , and quarrels cannot last for ever , and love begins where hatred ends ; and , to be sure , they look as if they were ...
... duty bet- ter . Hear if I ever asked another youngster into the house , save himself for I knew your honour was wise , and quarrels cannot last for ever , and love begins where hatred ends ; and , to be sure , they look as if they were ...
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... duty , are now drowned in giddy jests and trifling pur- suits , let me at least , who live secluded from all others , die without perceiving the change which has happened , and , above all , without perceiving it in mine own son , Let ...
... duty , are now drowned in giddy jests and trifling pur- suits , let me at least , who live secluded from all others , die without perceiving the change which has happened , and , above all , without perceiving it in mine own son , Let ...
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... wish to intrude myself upon yours . I am too well pleased to see you assume the power and the duty of thinking for yourself , which is what I have so long 13 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 75 son ever loved a mother more dearly, or would ...
... wish to intrude myself upon yours . I am too well pleased to see you assume the power and the duty of thinking for yourself , which is what I have so long 13 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 75 son ever loved a mother more dearly, or would ...
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Page 227 - Then again for pathos, where will you mend the dying scene of Arcite ? Alas, my heartis queen ! alas, my wife ! Giver at once, and ender of my life. What is this world ? — What axen men to have ? Now with his love — now in his cold grave Alone, withouten other company. But I tire you, sir; and do injustice to the poet whom I remember but by halves.
Page 218 - What made our poet meddle with a plot ? Was't that he fancied, for the very sake And name of plot, his trifling play might take ? For there's not in't one inch-board evidence...