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... poor thing ! was as happy as a first love can make a woman ; and when I used to gaze on her beautiful face , beam- ing with conscious love , I would fold her to my beating heart , and could scarce help wondering that such a being should ...
... poor thing ! was as happy as a first love can make a woman ; and when I used to gaze on her beautiful face , beam- ing with conscious love , I would fold her to my beating heart , and could scarce help wondering that such a being should ...
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... poor girl , had a melancholy foresight of what was to happen , and was un- willing to bind me in bonds which I might after- wards regret had ever been tied : but she was wrong ; had we at that time been married , my heart would have ...
... poor girl , had a melancholy foresight of what was to happen , and was un- willing to bind me in bonds which I might after- wards regret had ever been tied : but she was wrong ; had we at that time been married , my heart would have ...
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... poor Ellen . From this moment I never knew peace , except when in Florence Cecil's company ; there , indeed , I forgot everything but love , -there , I existed in an intoxication of delight ; but when away from her , the wound I had ...
... poor Ellen . From this moment I never knew peace , except when in Florence Cecil's company ; there , indeed , I forgot everything but love , -there , I existed in an intoxication of delight ; but when away from her , the wound I had ...
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... Poor Ellen ! how dejected did she look , and how sadly was she altered from what she was , when , like a bright vision , she first crossed my path in her mother's house ! then she was all life and smiles , and as lovely as a seraph ...
... Poor Ellen ! how dejected did she look , and how sadly was she altered from what she was , when , like a bright vision , she first crossed my path in her mother's house ! then she was all life and smiles , and as lovely as a seraph ...
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... poor girl . I could have wept to see how sadly misery had altered her whom I once loved , and I was filled with remorse when I thought that that misery had been caused by me . After a struggle , I could assume indifference no longer and ...
... poor girl . I could have wept to see how sadly misery had altered her whom I once loved , and I was filled with remorse when I thought that that misery had been caused by me . After a struggle , I could assume indifference no longer and ...
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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.