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... light clouds flitting across the blue of a summer sky . But I felt that something was wanting to make my dream ... lights are streaming from a thousand lamps , and brighter beams are flashing from beauty's eye . The country - dance ...
... light clouds flitting across the blue of a summer sky . But I felt that something was wanting to make my dream ... lights are streaming from a thousand lamps , and brighter beams are flashing from beauty's eye . The country - dance ...
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... light , which found its way irresistibly to every heart . So gentle was she , so pure and so lovely , she seemed more like a seraph which had wandered from the bowers of Paradise than any mere creature of mortal mould . Never before had ...
... light , which found its way irresistibly to every heart . So gentle was she , so pure and so lovely , she seemed more like a seraph which had wandered from the bowers of Paradise than any mere creature of mortal mould . Never before had ...
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... light which they admit , and beyond that I can see nothing but the waving branches of a dark forest . But this gloom is in unison with my own melancholy prospects ; I am lying wounded in a lonely cottage . Ellen , I cannot bear to think ...
... light which they admit , and beyond that I can see nothing but the waving branches of a dark forest . But this gloom is in unison with my own melancholy prospects ; I am lying wounded in a lonely cottage . Ellen , I cannot bear to think ...
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... light than a moonbeam , and jumped in - scarcely amongst clothes , only under a coarse coverlit . He had wandered all day , and was exhausted ; his fancy and flesh were at war - his eyelids drooped , and yet his brain burned - shame ...
... light than a moonbeam , and jumped in - scarcely amongst clothes , only under a coarse coverlit . He had wandered all day , and was exhausted ; his fancy and flesh were at war - his eyelids drooped , and yet his brain burned - shame ...
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... - he rejoiced in the glance it gave , as he waved it in the light of the moon , which , having risen higher , and got through obstructing clouds , shone full and bright into the cellar . He sprang upon the bed , 26 A DESPERATE ACT .
... - he rejoiced in the glance it gave , as he waved it in the light of the moon , which , having risen higher , and got through obstructing clouds , shone full and bright into the cellar . He sprang upon the bed , 26 A DESPERATE ACT .
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Page 237 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless: Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away...
Page 240 - Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Page 223 - When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!
Page 240 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 129 - How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.
Page 121 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Page 223 - THE stars are with the voyager Wherever he may sail ; The moon is constant to her time ; The sun will never fail ; But follow, follow round the world, The green earth and the sea ; So love is with the lover's heart, Wherever he may be.