The Roué, Volumen1J. and J. Harper, 1828 |
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... pursuit and their gratification . We feel the genuine tears of sympathy spring into our eyes at a tale of distress ; and while The world to our unpractised hearts A flattering prospect shows ; Our fancy forms a thousand schemes Of gay ...
... pursuit and their gratification . We feel the genuine tears of sympathy spring into our eyes at a tale of distress ; and while The world to our unpractised hearts A flattering prospect shows ; Our fancy forms a thousand schemes Of gay ...
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... pursuit of Agnes : both by her father's and mother's side nobly allied , he had discovered , by the help of the peerage , that although they were the younger and the poorer branches of their respective families , the ramifications of ...
... pursuit of Agnes : both by her father's and mother's side nobly allied , he had discovered , by the help of the peerage , that although they were the younger and the poorer branches of their respective families , the ramifications of ...
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... pursuits of a London season were transferred to the sea - side ; and a London winter was seldom finished without a series of engagements to meet at some of the mushroom watering- places , with which the coast of England has been covered ...
... pursuits of a London season were transferred to the sea - side ; and a London winter was seldom finished without a series of engagements to meet at some of the mushroom watering- places , with which the coast of England has been covered ...
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... pursuits , which its subsequent corpulence has destroyed . There were then no unwieldly building speculations to in- terrupt the expansion of views over the healthy Downs . No packs of half - bred harriers to tempt the equestrian ...
... pursuits , which its subsequent corpulence has destroyed . There were then no unwieldly building speculations to in- terrupt the expansion of views over the healthy Downs . No packs of half - bred harriers to tempt the equestrian ...
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... pursuits which rendered them afterwards so celebrated as philosophers ; whether Buo- naparte , as a boy among his comrades , gave any signs of that grasping ambition and that indomitable character which raised him , and his country ...
... pursuits which rendered them afterwards so celebrated as philosophers ; whether Buo- naparte , as a boy among his comrades , gave any signs of that grasping ambition and that indomitable character which raised him , and his country ...
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Página 199 - 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.
Página 238 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Página 55 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 88 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 74 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling 'round it still.
Página 160 - Only, this one : — lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard ' with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Página 88 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity ; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII. She knew the Latin— that is,
Página 10 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 245 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...
Página 227 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.