Courtship and wedlock; or, Lovers and husbands, by the author of 'Cousin Geoffrey'. |
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Page 203 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 216 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 369 - THE world's a room of sickness, where each heart Knows its own anguish and unrest ; The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, Is his, who skills of comfort best ; Whom by the softest step and gentlest tone Enfeebled spirits own, And love to raise the languid eye, When, like an angel's wing, they feel him fleeting by...
Page 316 - The treasures of the deep are not so precious As the concealed comforts of a man Lock'd up in woman's love.
Page 40 - At that period, indeed, he was truly " the observed of all observers, the glass of fashion, and the mould of form.
Page 11 - POWER most respectfully begs to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public in general, that, in...