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The barricades and arches are there , but come not less cordial , not less enthusiastic than how different the purpose ! Lofty poles and that which the Emperor and Empress have re- stately columns , with flags and streamers float ...
The barricades and arches are there , but come not less cordial , not less enthusiastic than how different the purpose ! Lofty poles and that which the Emperor and Empress have re- stately columns , with flags and streamers float ...
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After dining en famille at the Tuil- Wyatt , and Mr. J. Webb , Mr. Locke , M.P. , eries , the Imperial and Royal party went to the Opera Comique , where they appeared with less state , but were received with quite as much enthusiasm as ...
After dining en famille at the Tuil- Wyatt , and Mr. J. Webb , Mr. Locke , M.P. , eries , the Imperial and Royal party went to the Opera Comique , where they appeared with less state , but were received with quite as much enthusiasm as ...
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... like confidential conversation has yet passed this honest faith ; but I take good care not to between us , and each day seems to render the smile ; on the contrary , I give every possible prospect of such only less and less likely .
... like confidential conversation has yet passed this honest faith ; but I take good care not to between us , and each day seems to render the smile ; on the contrary , I give every possible prospect of such only less and less likely .
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Would her own ten years of eldership , that she " is Betty honor you less if , every morning , she saw afraid missis is wearing herself out , and would you dust a chair or two , or hunt out lurking you please to come and see her ?
Would her own ten years of eldership , that she " is Betty honor you less if , every morning , she saw afraid missis is wearing herself out , and would you dust a chair or two , or hunt out lurking you please to come and see her ?
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Percy did not worship at the feet of this more lofty and poetic beauty ; he brought his homage to the sunny eyes , the lighter heart . and less fanciful spirit of Mary Cumberland ; he had only interest and admiration to bestow upon her ...
Percy did not worship at the feet of this more lofty and poetic beauty ; he brought his homage to the sunny eyes , the lighter heart . and less fanciful spirit of Mary Cumberland ; he had only interest and admiration to bestow upon her ...
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Page 134 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 16 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 33 - There is but one With whom she has heart to be gay. When will the dancers leave her alone? She is weary of dance and play." Now half to the setting moon are gone, And half to the rising day; Low on the sand and loud on the stone The last wheel echoes away.
Page 346 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Page 134 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 33 - She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is corning, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near"; And the white rose weeps, "She is late"; The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear"; And the lily whispers, "I wait.
Page 30 - Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age - why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? we are ashes and dust.
Page 33 - For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone ; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.
Page 33 - For ever and ever, mine.' VI And the soul of the rose went into my blood, As the music clash'd in the hall ; And long by the garden lake I stood, For I heard your rivulet fall From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood, Our wood, that is dearer than all...
Page 127 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem...