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affection ambition answered asked beauty believe breath called cause CHAPTER character cheek common Constance conversation countenance dark dear death deep desire dream earth Emily emotions entered eyes face Falkland Fanny father fear feel felt future gaze give Godolphin hand happy heard heart Heaven hope hour human imagination interest Italy Lady Erpingham learned least leave less letter light lips live looked Lord Lucilla mind moment nature never night object once passed passion past Percy perhaps person pleasure poor present proud rest round Saville scarcely scene seemed seen silence smile soft soul speak spirit stars stood tears tell tender thee thing thou thought tion touched true turned voice whole wild wish woman young youth
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Page 128 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 129 - A crew who, under names of old renown— Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train— With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human.
Page 398 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 339 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 344 - ... her to leave London for E — , in the height of the season , has given her cheek a more delicate hue than I should think it naturally wore. Her eyes are light, but their lashes are long and dark; her hair is black and luxuriant , and worn in a fashion peculiar to herself; but her manners, Monktou ! how can I convey to you their fascination?
Page 49 - And deep, dark, rushing, even at that still hour, went the stream through the boughs that swept over its surface. Here and there the banks suddenly shelved down, mingling with the waves: then abruptly they rose, overspread with thick and tangled umbrage, several feet above the level of the river.
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| Title | Godolphin and Falkland Volume 23 of Collection of British and American authors Volume 23 of Collection of British authors Volume 23 of Tauchnitz edition |
| Author | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton |
| Publisher | Tauchnitz, 1842 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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