Lionne; Or The Doom of Deville |
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Adelaide's answered arms arose asked beautiful bosom bowed Braddock's road breakfast brothers brow Bush Creek chair chamber child dark daughter dear death deep Delaforêt door dreadful dress entered exclaimed eyes face father Fieldhurst fire gazed gentle Glen Lennark grotto guest hand head heard heart heaven horse hour huntress husband inquired Kalougoora Kate Kyte Keziah Lady Adelaide Deville Lady Elizabeth laid leave Lionne lips look marriage Marse Awful master Melpomene Midnight Star mistress morning mother mountain never night old Nero opened Orville Deville pale parlour passed passion Perdita PHILIP BAILEY poor province of Maryland replied ride riding habit River-view seat servant She-the silent sitting sleep smile stairs stood storm tell thought tone took turned voice Vulcan wife wild Winchester woman wonder words young girl young lady
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Page 273 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 206 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then, heigh, ho*! the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp, As friend remembered not.
Page 95 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 425 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 311 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 368 - Her lot is on you !— silent tears to weep, And patient smiles to wear through suffering's hour, And sumless riches, from affection's deep, To pour on broken reeds— a wasted shower ! And to make idols, and to find them clay, And to bewail that worship — therefore pray!
Page 320 - The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation...
Page 387 - For ill can poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And sculpture to be dumb.
Page 182 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight; And rose where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory...
Page 221 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.