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Page 55
... marriage vows as false as dicers ' oaths ; O , Slow . such a deed as from the body of contraction plucks the very soul ; and sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words ! Ah me ! that act ! Queen . Ah me , what act , that roars so loud ...
... marriage vows as false as dicers ' oaths ; O , Slow . such a deed as from the body of contraction plucks the very soul ; and sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words ! Ah me ! that act ! Queen . Ah me , what act , that roars so loud ...
Page 58
... Marry , he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized : if the interim be but a se'ennight , Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year . Orlando . Who ambles Time ...
... Marry , he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized : if the interim be but a se'ennight , Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year . Orlando . Who ambles Time ...
Page 79
... marry . Chas . Never mean to marry ? Kate . Never ! Chas . Oh , madam , in mercy to mankind , make not so rash , so in- considerate a resolve . Kate . Sir , it is in mercy to mankind I make it . What would be a fond husband's sufferings ...
... marry . Chas . Never mean to marry ? Kate . Never ! Chas . Oh , madam , in mercy to mankind , make not so rash , so in- considerate a resolve . Kate . Sir , it is in mercy to mankind I make it . What would be a fond husband's sufferings ...
Page 98
... married , show her out . Servant . Very well , Sir Charles . [ Exit Servant , who immediately returns showing in LADY CLUTTERBUCK . ] Lady C. Sir Charles Coldstream , I presume . I have not the pleasure of knowing you , and I believe ...
... married , show her out . Servant . Very well , Sir Charles . [ Exit Servant , who immediately returns showing in LADY CLUTTERBUCK . ] Lady C. Sir Charles Coldstream , I presume . I have not the pleasure of knowing you , and I believe ...
Page 99
... marriage , news reached me of his death . I immediately quitted London with what fortune I possessed , to hide my tears at a watering - place , where I met Sir Stephen Clutterbuck , a little wizen old gentleman , who wore powder , but ...
... marriage , news reached me of his death . I immediately quitted London with what fortune I possessed , to hide my tears at a watering - place , where I met Sir Stephen Clutterbuck , a little wizen old gentleman , who wore powder , but ...
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Page 128 - I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 308 - Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Page 271 - In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts...
Page 30 - I met a little cottage girl: she was eight years old/ she said; her hair was thick with many a curl that clustered round her head.
Page 52 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents...
Page 38 - John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi...
Page 34 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 43 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Page 52 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one...
Page 281 - Lenore !"Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, All my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping Something louder than before. " Surely," said I, " surely that is Something at my window lattice : Let me see then what thereat is, And this mystery explore — Let my heart be still a moment And this mystery explore ; — 'Tis the wind and nothing more.