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... young folks used to call the quiet and easy one Aunt Bridget , and the bustling , worrying one Aunt Fidget . You never in the whole course of your life saw such a quiet , easy , comfortable creature as Aunt Bridget - she was not ...
... young folks used to call the quiet and easy one Aunt Bridget , and the bustling , worrying one Aunt Fidget . You never in the whole course of your life saw such a quiet , easy , comfortable creature as Aunt Bridget - she was not ...
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... yours . How he strided away with his long spurs , to be sure ! Do you remember a smart young gentleman with a blue cap that walked past you on the glacis occasionally ? " " Ah , with laced boots , like a Hun- 20 FLOWERS OF FICTION .
... yours . How he strided away with his long spurs , to be sure ! Do you remember a smart young gentleman with a blue cap that walked past you on the glacis occasionally ? " " Ah , with laced boots , like a Hun- 20 FLOWERS OF FICTION .
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... young urchin , bearing in one hand a circular mirror , set in a frame of ebony inlaid with mother of pearl , and in the other a bottle of perfumed water , with which he sprinkled my face and gar- ments . After allowing me what he con ...
... young urchin , bearing in one hand a circular mirror , set in a frame of ebony inlaid with mother of pearl , and in the other a bottle of perfumed water , with which he sprinkled my face and gar- ments . After allowing me what he con ...
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... young woman named Durieux , who , in a crowded street , attacked Antinotti , her suitor , and had a regular combat with him . The most renowned , however , of these duellists in petticoats was Mademoiselle Maupin , the actress , whose ...
... young woman named Durieux , who , in a crowded street , attacked Antinotti , her suitor , and had a regular combat with him . The most renowned , however , of these duellists in petticoats was Mademoiselle Maupin , the actress , whose ...
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... young woman and one of the royal body guard . The girl had received his addresses , and he had treated her ill , and deserted her . To this she could not submit , so she challenged him , fixed the place , and chose her arms . Two shots ...
... young woman and one of the royal body guard . The girl had received his addresses , and he had treated her ill , and deserted her . To this she could not submit , so she challenged him , fixed the place , and chose her arms . Two shots ...
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Страница 283 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Страница 138 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Страница 15 - Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest ! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love, and Pleasure ! Ae fond kiss, and then we sever ! Ae fareweel, alas ! for ever ! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Страница 151 - A maiden never bold ; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blush'd at herself...
Страница 263 - With what a compell'd face a woman sits While she is drawing ! I have noted divers Either to feign smiles, or suck in the lips, To have a little mouth ; ruffle the cheeks, To have the dimple seen ; and so disorder The face with affectation...
Страница 10 - They sin who tell us love can die. ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Страница 170 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Страница 129 - Feebly must they have felt Who, in old time, attired with snakes and whips The vengeful Furies. Beautiful regards Were turned on me — the face of her I loved ; The Wife and Mother pitifully fixing Tender reproaches, insupportable...
Страница 15 - ALTHO' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing, Than aught in the world beside — Jessy ! Here's a health, &c. I mourn thro' the gay, gaudy day, As, hopeless, I muse on thy charms : But welcome the dream o' sweet slumber, For then I am lockt in thy arms — Jessy ! Here's a health, &c.