The English Nights' Entertainment: 1st Ser. Contain [sic] A Day in Stowe GardensJ. Gifford, 1826 - 315 pages |
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... Lysander you met at Venice , behold me beggared of every zechin , and that by my own folly . My appear- ance here is owing entirely to a mistake , which I do not fully comprehend ... Lysander of Lido , FORTUNES OF A SLEEP - WALKER . 203.
... Lysander you met at Venice , behold me beggared of every zechin , and that by my own folly . My appear- ance here is owing entirely to a mistake , which I do not fully comprehend ... Lysander of Lido , FORTUNES OF A SLEEP - WALKER . 203.
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... Lysander of Lido , which was particularly agreeable to my father on account of the young gentleman's reputed wealth , which he imagines would secure the happiness of a daughter whom he loves better even than riches ; but I have still ...
... Lysander of Lido , which was particularly agreeable to my father on account of the young gentleman's reputed wealth , which he imagines would secure the happiness of a daughter whom he loves better even than riches ; but I have still ...
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... Lysander of Lido . ” " Gentle- men , ” answered Lysander of Venice , " it would be easy for me , who am your equal in birth , and united to this gentleman's daughter , to disdain this exami- nation , and refuse an answer to your ...
... Lysander of Lido . ” " Gentle- men , ” answered Lysander of Venice , " it would be easy for me , who am your equal in birth , and united to this gentleman's daughter , to disdain this exami- nation , and refuse an answer to your ...
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... Lysander of Lido , and Abbate Geraldi's treasure , by persuading Angelina that on her compliance de- pended the life ... Lysander's resistance and Angelina's outcries , bound her to a tree , and con- veyed him out of the garden , whence ...
... Lysander of Lido , and Abbate Geraldi's treasure , by persuading Angelina that on her compliance de- pended the life ... Lysander's resistance and Angelina's outcries , bound her to a tree , and con- veyed him out of the garden , whence ...
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... Lysander of Lido , of the family's disappointment at its failure , and the ease with which her vow to Lysander of Venice could be dissolved . Hitherto I have described Angelina as beautiful FORTUNES OF A SLEEP - WALKER . 217.
... Lysander of Lido , of the family's disappointment at its failure , and the ease with which her vow to Lysander of Venice could be dissolved . Hitherto I have described Angelina as beautiful FORTUNES OF A SLEEP - WALKER . 217.
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Page 68 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 245 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me : In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. Th...
Page 208 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 111 - Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Page 209 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving, delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...
Page 119 - And life to move it selfe upon the water. Strange thing ! how bold and swift the monster was, That neither car'd for...
Page 119 - And is the sea (quoth Coridon) so fearfull ? " " Fearful much more (quoth he) then hart can fear : Thousand wyld beasts with deep mouthes gaping direfull Therin stil wait poore passengers to teare. Who life doth loath, and longs death to behold, Before he die alreadie dead with feare, And yet would live with heart halfe stonie cold, Let him to sea, and he shall see it there.
Page 78 - And he display'd in all parts ! for such a dish now, And at my need, I would betray my father, And, for a roasted conger, all my country.
Page 78 - — or thus ; — " Look how many Muses there doth dwell Upon the sweet banks of the learned well, And just so many strokes the clock hath struck ; " — And so forth. And you must now and then enter into a description.
Page 191 - O the glory Of two united hearts like hers and mine ! Let poring book-men dream of other worlds ; My world, and all of happiness, is here, And I'd not change it for the best to come : A life of pleasure is Elysium.