The Inn-keeper's AlbumM'Lean, 1823 - 429 pages |
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Page 11
... feeling to her face which the poet or the sculptor would vainly endeavour to rival . She was attired in the simple garb of a cottage girl ; a small mantle , thrown negligently over her shoulders , hung in graceful folds upon her person ...
... feeling to her face which the poet or the sculptor would vainly endeavour to rival . She was attired in the simple garb of a cottage girl ; a small mantle , thrown negligently over her shoulders , hung in graceful folds upon her person ...
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... feeling , she looked fondly in his face , and then sunk half fainting on his bosom . Respect was now absorbed in agitation . Mortimer clasped his victim in his arms , kissed her glowing cheek , and inhaled each sigh that heaved her ...
... feeling , she looked fondly in his face , and then sunk half fainting on his bosom . Respect was now absorbed in agitation . Mortimer clasped his victim in his arms , kissed her glowing cheek , and inhaled each sigh that heaved her ...
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... feelings , accompanied her lovely cousin to the ball . Her beauty immediately procured her partners , and the admirers of her graceful movements formed a complete circle round her . While paying slight attention to the compli- ments ...
... feelings , accompanied her lovely cousin to the ball . Her beauty immediately procured her partners , and the admirers of her graceful movements formed a complete circle round her . While paying slight attention to the compli- ments ...
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... feelings of the Englishman , and he gave vent to his affliction in tears . He looked around him : -here stood the little wooden bridge which he had so often crossed with Rosalie ; there was the primrose bank on which they had seated ...
... feelings of the Englishman , and he gave vent to his affliction in tears . He looked around him : -here stood the little wooden bridge which he had so often crossed with Rosalie ; there was the primrose bank on which they had seated ...
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... feeling . We connect the falling honours of the year with our own relative situation , and , by observing the vicissitudes of the season , are induced to dwell with thoughtful attention on the vicissitudes of our own life . Rousseau ...
... feeling . We connect the falling honours of the year with our own relative situation , and , by observing the vicissitudes of the season , are induced to dwell with thoughtful attention on the vicissitudes of our own life . Rousseau ...
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Page xiv - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 123 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 339 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 346 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 102 - Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Page 180 - It ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 102 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Page 164 - Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then...
Page 157 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 164 - Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.