Jane Bouverie; Or, Prosperity and Adversity

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William Whyte and Company, 1846 - 320 страници
 

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Страница 314 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Страница 92 - That held her sable shroud. So shall the fairest face appear When youth and years are flown; Such is the robe that kings must wear When death has reft their crown. Her bloom was like the springing flower, That sips the silver dew; The rose was budded in her cheek, Just opening to the view. But love had, like the canker-worm, Consumed her early prime; The rose grew pale, and left her cheek — She died before her time. Awake!
Страница 170 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; — Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Страница 29 - Yet soon reviving plants and flowers Anew shall deck the plain ; The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, And flourish green again.
Страница 303 - Whom the gods love die young,' was said of yore,' And many deaths do they escape by this: The death of friends, and that which slays even more — The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is, Except mere...
Страница 77 - And since, by passion's force subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; 4. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant ; The ill, though asked, deny.
Страница 160 - O'erhangs thy soul, thy ev'ry look proclaims. Why then refuse it words ? The heart, that bleeds From any stroke of fate or human wrongs, Loves to disclose itself, that list'ning pity May drop a healing tear upon the wound.
Страница 271 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw, Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race...
Страница 139 - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Страница 266 - His — riches, honours, pleasures, all Desire could frame ; — but where are they ? And he, as some tall rock that stands Protected by the circling sea, Surrounded by admiring bands, Seemed proudly strong, — and where is he...

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