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... Truth and love , Friendship and gratitude , are there to lend A charm to manhood , rising far above All that is found in me - a beauteous whole , Lovely with life , but yet without a soul . V. " There's nothing true but heaven , " the 2 ...
... Truth and love , Friendship and gratitude , are there to lend A charm to manhood , rising far above All that is found in me - a beauteous whole , Lovely with life , but yet without a soul . V. " There's nothing true but heaven , " the 2 ...
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... truth seemed to dwell in each love - breathing tone , And we judged other hearts by the warmth of our own . They are gone , with their impulses ardent and strong , And all the wild thoughts that to girlhood belong ; They are gone , with ...
... truth seemed to dwell in each love - breathing tone , And we judged other hearts by the warmth of our own . They are gone , with their impulses ardent and strong , And all the wild thoughts that to girlhood belong ; They are gone , with ...
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... own awakenings : It spoke of hope and of promised truth , And of every bliss that waits on youth . And the maiden dreamt of a truthful love , All chances , or change , or ill above ; Of a happiness centred all in one , Who would 22.
... own awakenings : It spoke of hope and of promised truth , And of every bliss that waits on youth . And the maiden dreamt of a truthful love , All chances , or change , or ill above ; Of a happiness centred all in one , Who would 22.
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... truth of a life may cumber ? But ' t is vain on a night like this , From such visions to strive to awake , For each beauty above and around Doth a part of the vision make , — Stars , moonlight , and quivering trees , And the sound of ...
... truth of a life may cumber ? But ' t is vain on a night like this , From such visions to strive to awake , For each beauty above and around Doth a part of the vision make , — Stars , moonlight , and quivering trees , And the sound of ...
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... truth , And he will fickle prove ; But seem to doubt , and then forsooth He'll weary with his love . So , maiden , act a double part , If you would keep your lover's heart ! EVERY - DAY HEROES . I. WE speak and we 58 SONG.
... truth , And he will fickle prove ; But seem to doubt , and then forsooth He'll weary with his love . So , maiden , act a double part , If you would keep your lover's heart ! EVERY - DAY HEROES . I. WE speak and we 58 SONG.
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12 Engravings 24 Engravings Abbé Anec ANECDOTES Author BARWELL beautiful bird Blockley bloom blossoms breath breeze bright cheerful child CHILDREN cloth coloured Croydon delight ditto dream e'en Eight copies England's shall remain eyes fair Farewell to thee feel flow'ret flowers Foolscap 8vo Frontispiece gentle GEOGRAPHY gone half-bound morocco happy heart Highbury HISTORY hope Illustrated with 24 ISAAC TAYLOR Isle of Wight Islington LESSONS light look lute lyre MAMMA'S BIBLE STORIES meadows green merry England's MIND THOSE VANISH'D Miss morning mortal mountain Muse neath never night o'er Paradise-terrace PARLOUR GAMES pass'd perchance plain poet poor Price Princes-street SCENES sea is merry Second Edition seem'd sigh silent sing Sixth Edition smile song sorrow spirit spring summer breeze SUN AND SHADE sweet Tale tears things thought thro tion trees TURRET CLOCK VIII wind Woodcuts WORLD'S COMPLAINT young
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