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... ladies were seated , but replied , " No , No ; you American ladies are very handsome , but you are too white ; you sit ... lady , with an ivory handle , he will hear of something to her advantage . never scolds , never suffers a rent to ...
... ladies were seated , but replied , " No , No ; you American ladies are very handsome , but you are too white ; you sit ... lady , with an ivory handle , he will hear of something to her advantage . never scolds , never suffers a rent to ...
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... lady down in Virginia , who objects to the study of gardening , because she says , " it is a naughty culture " ( an horticulture ) . CHILD'S DISSOLVING VIEWS . THAT rubbing his cheeks with the cat's tail will produce the growth of ...
... lady down in Virginia , who objects to the study of gardening , because she says , " it is a naughty culture " ( an horticulture ) . CHILD'S DISSOLVING VIEWS . THAT rubbing his cheeks with the cat's tail will produce the growth of ...
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... LADY writer , who may be considered competent to speak on the subject , says " There is generally speaking , so much ... lady's opinion . ASTRONOMICAL WIT . A PERSON lately remarking the brightness of a moonlight night with the usual ...
... LADY writer , who may be considered competent to speak on the subject , says " There is generally speaking , so much ... lady's opinion . ASTRONOMICAL WIT . A PERSON lately remarking the brightness of a moonlight night with the usual ...
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... Lady in Lalla Rookh : — " I never taught a bright Gazelle To watch me with its dark black eye , But when it came to know me well , And love me , it was sure to die ! " His wife , from being at first useful to him , had become agreeable ...
... Lady in Lalla Rookh : — " I never taught a bright Gazelle To watch me with its dark black eye , But when it came to know me well , And love me , it was sure to die ! " His wife , from being at first useful to him , had become agreeable ...
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... lady , remarkable for her confused ideas of the meaning of words , thus described a clear summer evening : - " It was a beautiful bright night , the moon made every thing as light as a cork ! " IF women knew their real power and wished ...
... lady , remarkable for her confused ideas of the meaning of words , thus described a clear summer evening : - " It was a beautiful bright night , the moon made every thing as light as a cork ! " IF women knew their real power and wished ...
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Page 242 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 372 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease...
Page 144 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! logo.
Page 252 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Page 339 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept : then had I been at rest...
Page 255 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 209 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Page 54 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Page 343 - O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
Page 298 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...