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" Had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket! "
Littell's Living Age - Page 44
1855
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 96

1855 - 626 pages
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried ' Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 96

1855 - 622 pages
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried ' Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried " Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 96

1855 - 624 pages
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried ' Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...shudder as they read ; but we question if the diabolical reverse and coldblooded wickedness of an Italian woman ever invented much more deadly trifles than...
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The Philadelphia Journal of Homœopathy, Volume 4

1856 - 778 pages
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried " Pure death in an ear-ring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonnerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they...
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Curiosities of Civilization

Andrew Wynter - 1860 - 554 pages
...sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried — " Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some ,of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 878 pages
...I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, Such a wild crowd of invisible pleasures ! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket 1 The sense of possessing such an irresponsible power would no doubt be intoxicating to some people,...
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A Golden Heart: A Novel, Volume 2

Tom Hood - 1867 - 310 pages
...been fascinating work in the old days to be a com pounder of poisons — to be able to enshrine Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket — to make such exquisite drugs that their mere beauty disarmed suspicion — to handle little bright-hued...
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The lost link, Volume 1; Volume 267

Thomas Hood - 1868 - 316 pages
...a species of Brinvilliers, who would have rejoiced to carry, morally not actually, of course, Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket. She was perfectly delighted at the idea of strangling love with a cambric pockethandkerchief — garrotting,...
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Selections from [his] Poetical Works

Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures ! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket ! VI. Soon, at the King's, a mere lozenge to give And Pauline should have just thirty minutes to live...
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