Won, but lost! Or, The mine sprung at the Wizard's Point, Volume 1 |
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Won, But Lost! Or the Mine Sprung at the Wizard's Point Marianne H Lumsden No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 142 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 1 - All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, " Ah ! when shall they all meet again ? As in the days long since gone by," The ancient timepiece makes reply, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 17 - In gazing on those we've been lost to so long ! The sorrows, the joys, of which once they were part, Still round them, like visions of yesterday, throng. As letters some hand hath invisibly traced, When held to the flame will steal out on the sight, So many a feeling, that long seem'd effaced, The warmth of a moment like this brings to light. And thus, as in memory's bark we shall glide, To visit the scenes of our boyhood anew, Tho...
Page 184 - As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all.
Page 121 - I find she loves him much because she hides it. Love teaches cunning even to innocence, And where he gets possession, his first work is to Dig deep within a heart, and there lie hid, And like a Miser in the dark to feast alone.
Page 17 - What soften'd remembrances come o'er the heart In gazing on those we've been lost to so long ! The sorrows, the joys, of which once they were part Still round them, like visions of yesterday, throng, As letters some hand hath invisibly trac'd, When held to the flame will steal out on the sight, So many a feeling, that long seem'd effac'd, The warmth of a moment like this brings to light.
Page 73 - To use him so that used her so well; Or who with blame can justly her upbraid For loving not? for who can love compel? And, sooth to say, it is foolhardy thing...
Page 35 - He who receives a good turn should never forget it : he who does one should never remember it.
Page 163 - See what money can do : that can change Men's manners ; alter their conditions ! How tempestuous the slaves are without it. O, thou powerful metal ! what authority Is in thee ! thou art the key of all men's Mouths : with thee a man may lock up the jaws Of an informer, and without thee, he Cannot the lips of a lawyer.
Page 121 - Eternal One, With half such longing, deep desire. Love was to his impassion'd soul Not, as with others, a mere part Of its existence, but the whole — The very life-breath of his heart!