The Beauties of English Writers: In Prose and VerseR. Scott, 1799 - 308 страници |
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... beauty , on the heav'n - born mind , The foul fuperior , or the taste refin'd ? Beauty but ferves deftruction to infure , And fenfe , to feel the pang it cannot cure . Each neighb'ring youth afpir'd to gain her hand , And No. 2 . 9 ...
... beauty , on the heav'n - born mind , The foul fuperior , or the taste refin'd ? Beauty but ferves deftruction to infure , And fenfe , to feel the pang it cannot cure . Each neighb'ring youth afpir'd to gain her hand , And No. 2 . 9 ...
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... beauty , fhews Its fickly empire o'er the vanquish'd rose . Devouring forrow marks her for his prey , And flow and certain mines his filent way . Yet , as apace her ebbing life declin'd , Increasing ftrength fuftain'd her firmer mind ...
... beauty , fhews Its fickly empire o'er the vanquish'd rose . Devouring forrow marks her for his prey , And flow and certain mines his filent way . Yet , as apace her ebbing life declin'd , Increasing ftrength fuftain'd her firmer mind ...
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... beauty of her com- plexion was flushed with weeping . Her blue eyes were full of tender anxiety . And her bofom heaved with repeated fighs . By contraction Failand , a hill well known in Somerset- shire ; not far from this is the ...
... beauty of her com- plexion was flushed with weeping . Her blue eyes were full of tender anxiety . And her bofom heaved with repeated fighs . By contraction Failand , a hill well known in Somerset- shire ; not far from this is the ...
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... beauty , virtue , or personal accom- plishments . To be in love was looked upon as a neceffary qualification of a knight ; and he ftiled himfelf the flave or fervant of his miftrefs . Thofe fentiments were productive of the greatest ...
... beauty , virtue , or personal accom- plishments . To be in love was looked upon as a neceffary qualification of a knight ; and he ftiled himfelf the flave or fervant of his miftrefs . Thofe fentiments were productive of the greatest ...
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... beauty of moral recti- tude , and the happiness and self - reward of virtue ; but at the fame time professed it his design to free my mind from vulgar prejudices and superstition , for fo he called REVEALED RELIGION . As I was urged to ...
... beauty of moral recti- tude , and the happiness and self - reward of virtue ; but at the fame time professed it his design to free my mind from vulgar prejudices and superstition , for fo he called REVEALED RELIGION . As I was urged to ...
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