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Alice Chillingham Alice's amusing angry asked ball beauty Belfort believe better bright eyes By-the-bye called CHAPTER Charlie club course cried cupboard D. G. ROSSETTI dear dinner Duke of Cheshire Eaton Square Emily eyes face feel fellow felt Flittery forget forgive give glanced gone hand happy heart husband Jack Chillingham Jack's Jane Johnny Beere Keyser kiss knew Lady Brocklesby Lady Glorme Lady Meldrum ladyship laugh lips London look Lord Badsworth Lord Brocklesby Lord Winder Lord Windermere lordship marriage married mean mind Minna nature never night North Street once perhaps poor Jack pretty pretty woman Sandymont scarcely seemed Shodborough Sinnington Sir John Glorme smile society Spencer Stonegrave suppose sure talk Tarporley tell thing thought Vavasour Violet voice wife Windermere's wish woman women wonder words Wraith wrong young Zazel
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Page 299 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 170 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 45 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 210 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my good is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled and yet I saw no sun, And now I live and now my life is done.
Page 126 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 312 - Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, 'The night is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 45 - Mother Hubbard, you see, was old; there being no mention of others, we may presume she was alone; a widow — a friendless, old, solitary widow, yet did she despair? Did she sit down and weep, or read a novel, or wring her hands? No! She went to the cupboard. And here observe that she went to the cupboard.
Page 45 - one of the cupboards,' or the 'right-hand cupboard,' or the 'left-hand cupboard,' or the one above, or the one below, or the one under the floor; but just the cupboard — the one humble little cupboard the poor widow possessed. And why did she go to the cupboard? Was it to bring forth golden goblets, or glittering, precious stones, or costly apparel, or feasts, or any other attributes of wealth?
Page 45 - But when she got there the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.' " ' When she got there.' You see, dear brethren, what perseverance is. You see the beauty of persistence in doing right. She got there. There were no turnings and twistings, no slippings and slidings, no leaning to the right or faltering to the left. With glorious simplicity we are told she got there. " And how was her noble effort rewarded ? "
Page 117 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.