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... heart of Lise ought not to occupy my thoughts : my profession * condemns me to be ignorant of it . I Orlando Furioso . may , however , be permitted to say , that I think it susceptible . When she speaks of it herself , her expressions ...
... heart of Lise ought not to occupy my thoughts : my profession * condemns me to be ignorant of it . I Orlando Furioso . may , however , be permitted to say , that I think it susceptible . When she speaks of it herself , her expressions ...
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... heart , In which the red blood hides , seems tumulted By some delicious passion . Look , above , Above : How nobly ... heart's - ease for your woes . And now , The honey - suckle flower I give to thee , And love it for my sake , my own ...
... heart , In which the red blood hides , seems tumulted By some delicious passion . Look , above , Above : How nobly ... heart's - ease for your woes . And now , The honey - suckle flower I give to thee , And love it for my sake , my own ...
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... heart and weeping eye , To sing songs to her memory ? Oh ! then , farewell ! and now with hearts that mourn Deeply , to Dian's temple will we go : But ever on this day we will return , Constant , to mark Cyane's fountain flow ; And ...
... heart and weeping eye , To sing songs to her memory ? Oh ! then , farewell ! and now with hearts that mourn Deeply , to Dian's temple will we go : But ever on this day we will return , Constant , to mark Cyane's fountain flow ; And ...
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... heart . Methought the ice my breast defended Would only make its fires more splendid , As sunbeams that in winter glow , Glance brightest from the wreathed snow . But , oh ! my bosom , which before Began so lightly to adore , Would now ...
... heart . Methought the ice my breast defended Would only make its fires more splendid , As sunbeams that in winter glow , Glance brightest from the wreathed snow . But , oh ! my bosom , which before Began so lightly to adore , Would now ...
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... heart . May he to whom kind Heav'n shall give Once more to bid thy wishes live , And wake that eye's soft ray , serene , Be to thee what I would have been . Give thou to him , with thine , the heart Thou takest from me , now we part ...
... heart . May he to whom kind Heav'n shall give Once more to bid thy wishes live , And wake that eye's soft ray , serene , Be to thee what I would have been . Give thou to him , with thine , the heart Thou takest from me , now we part ...
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Page 236 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
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Page 365 - Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door; which, as it was an established piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal at that time, nor should it at...
Page 125 - Is hung with marble fabrics, line o'er line, Terrace o'er terrace, nearer still, and nearer To the blue heavens.
Page 129 - Nor stoop'd their lamps th' enthroned fires on high: A single silent star Came wandering from afar, Gliding uncheck'd and calm along the liquid sky; The Eastern Sages leading on As at a kingly throne, To lay their gold and odours sweet Before thy infant feet. The earth and ocean were not hush'd to hear Bright harmony from every starry sphere ; Nor at thy presence brake the voice of song From all the cherub choirs, And seraphs' burning lyres Pour'd through the host of heaven the charmed clouds along.
Page 128 - And not by thunders strewed Was thy tempestuous road ; Nor indignation burnt before thee on thy way. But thee, a soft and naked child, Thy mother undefiled. In the rude manger laid to rest From off her virgin breast. The heavens were not commanded to prepare A gorgeous canopy of golden air ; Nor stooped their lamps th...
Page 131 - ... fan, Sweeping, like chaff, thy wealth and pomp away: Still to the noontide of that nightless day. Shalt thou thy wonted dissolute course maintain. Along the busy mart and crowded street. The buyer and the seller still shall meet, And marriage feasts, begin their jocund strain : Still to the pouring out the Cup of Woe; Till Earth, a drunkard, reeling to and fro. And mountains molten by his burning feet, And Heaven his presence own, all red with furnace heat. The hundred-gated Cities then, The...
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Page 365 - The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs, with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies.
Page 365 - Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished to have at hand ; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed — and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy, that the lady of Wouter Van Twiller once had occasion to empty her right pocket in search...