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Page 101
... MARY GENTLE . ) , All this is fine indeed ; but in my opinion , it is never so pleasant to talk about love as to make it . And with such a light from Heaven as you beside me , I can now think of nothing else . MARY GENTLE . You pay no ...
... MARY GENTLE . ) , All this is fine indeed ; but in my opinion , it is never so pleasant to talk about love as to make it . And with such a light from Heaven as you beside me , I can now think of nothing else . MARY GENTLE . You pay no ...
Page 102
... MARY GENTLE . The magic of the human voice was certainly never more fully demonstrated than in that remarkable ... Mary Gentle- MARY GENTLE . Well you may have it so ; but as you have interrupted the sentence , you may finish it ...
... MARY GENTLE . The magic of the human voice was certainly never more fully demonstrated than in that remarkable ... Mary Gentle- MARY GENTLE . Well you may have it so ; but as you have interrupted the sentence , you may finish it ...
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... MARY GENTLE . You are quite gallant , Mr. Millikin , — a little too much so at present . At another time - I mean to say that is I hope you won't misunderstand- MILLIKIN . Certainly not my dear Mary . I understand you to say that Cupid ...
... MARY GENTLE . You are quite gallant , Mr. Millikin , — a little too much so at present . At another time - I mean to say that is I hope you won't misunderstand- MILLIKIN . Certainly not my dear Mary . I understand you to say that Cupid ...
Page 106
... MARY GENTLE . That young friend of your's in the spectacles was I think quizzing the lady to whom he wrote his apologetic little song , and if I mistake not , she is not the only person he has quizzed . Have you heard of his jokes and ...
... MARY GENTLE . That young friend of your's in the spectacles was I think quizzing the lady to whom he wrote his apologetic little song , and if I mistake not , she is not the only person he has quizzed . Have you heard of his jokes and ...
Page 107
... MARY GENTLE . He is really a pleasant compound of Brantôme and the Abbé Chaulieu . His mouth is a well fastidious , but not so of wit , and his taste as elegant and finical , as that of Mr. Elegy Gray . In genius and learn- ing far ...
... MARY GENTLE . He is really a pleasant compound of Brantôme and the Abbé Chaulieu . His mouth is a well fastidious , but not so of wit , and his taste as elegant and finical , as that of Mr. Elegy Gray . In genius and learn- ing far ...
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Page 298 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 209 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 298 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 302 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 306 - If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 314 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Page 327 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 331 - Thus sung they in the English boat, A holy and a cheerful Note, And all the way, to guide their Chime, With falling Oars they kept the time.
Page 309 - Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.
Page 133 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.