Katherine and her sisters, by the author of 'The discipline of life'.Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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Página 58 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 78 - The wildest ills that darken life Are rapture to the bosom's strife ; The tempest, in its blackest form, Is beauty to the bosom's storm; The ocean, lashed to fury loud, Its high wave mingling with the cloud, Is peaceful, sweet serenity To passion's dark and boundless sea.
Página 265 - But from my griefs and me this counsel take ; Expend the passion of thy heart in youth ; Fight thy love-battles whilst thy heart is strong, And wounds heal kindlily. An April frost Is sharp, but kills not ; sad October's storm Strikes when the juices and the vital sap Are ebbing from the leaf.
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Página 100 - He sank into his chair silently, and passed his hand over his eyes as if to shut out a vision of the future. Isaura in her excitement did not notice the effect on her English visitor. She could not have divined such an effect as possible. On the contrary, even subordinate to her joy at the thought that she had not mistaken the instincts which led her to a nobler vocation than that...
Página 191 - ... honour of our visit. Being told that I had the intention of returning to Teheran, my host was still more pressing in his attentions, in the hope that I should give the Shah a favourable opinion of him. As a promise was not expensive, and he was most hospitable, I assured him that I should be very glad if there was any way in which I could be of use to him. The fortress of Laush is situated at fourteen parasangs south of that of Furrah, on the summit of a sugar-loaf eminence. There are three .lines...