Every-day CharactersPaul, 1896 - 72 pages |
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... love's sensations ? * Black eyes , fair forehead , clustering locks- Such wealth , such honours , Cupid chooses ; He cares as little for the Stocks , As Baron Rothschild for the Muses . S1 HE sketched ; the vale , the wood , 41 F.
... love's sensations ? * Black eyes , fair forehead , clustering locks- Such wealth , such honours , Cupid chooses ; He cares as little for the Stocks , As Baron Rothschild for the Muses . S1 HE sketched ; the vale , the wood , 41 F.
Page 51
... eyes were blue as autumn's sky , When autumn's sky is bluest ; And well my heart might deem her one Of life's most precious flowers , For half her thoughts were of its sun , And half were of its showers . < { } ; } } { < } } 51.
... eyes were blue as autumn's sky , When autumn's sky is bluest ; And well my heart might deem her one Of life's most precious flowers , For half her thoughts were of its sun , And half were of its showers . < { } ; } } { < } } 51.
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... eyes and noses ; But carelessly you turn away From all the pinks , and all the roses ; Say , is that fond look sent in search Of one whose look as fondly answers ? And is he , fairest , in the Church ? Or is he ain't he - in the Lancers ...
... eyes and noses ; But carelessly you turn away From all the pinks , and all the roses ; Say , is that fond look sent in search Of one whose look as fondly answers ? And is he , fairest , in the Church ? Or is he ain't he - in the Lancers ...
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ALDIN autumn's sky BALL-ROOM BALLAD OF BEAU Baron BEAU BROCADE began to quote BELLE bless bright CECİL charming Church cradle Crown 8vo dance a jig danced last darkly hinted Darnel debts divinely dress EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Elzevir 8vo Etchings eyes fair folly Forgotten-like frowned gloves Grace hair half hand Handel HANSON heart Hic jacet GVLIELMVS HOGARTH HUGH THOMSON Illustrations by HUGH jacet GVLIELMVS BROWN Jane knit LADY Lady?—naught laughed Laura locks look Lord master's moon Muses never saw nulla non donandus o'er old Sir Geoffrey's painted Parchment parish PARTNER PAUL TRENCH Persian POEMS PORTRAIT praise Printed by BALLANTYNE PROSE puns puppy dance quadrille With old QUINCE quote Augustine RAIN ROYAL ACADEMY 1831 sage saint sighed smile sorrow steed steeple subscribed sultry summer's rose sweetly taste themes thought to-morrow TRÜBNER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Venus VERITAS Verses VICAR village Vir nulla Warm Whate'er whist
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Page 11 - He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking ; And when religious sects ran mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning.
Page 7 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.
Page 12 - And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage: At his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.
Page 6 - And warmed himself in Court or College, He had not gained an honest friend And twenty curious scraps of knowledge; If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor — Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage, nor the Vicar.
Page 14 - Alack the change! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled, — The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled; The church is larger than before; You reach it by a carriage entry; It holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted up for gentry.
Page 47 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!
Page 8 - It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud Dissent the mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and line, He...
Page 39 - Little Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them to the Sunday Journal...
Page 3 - THE VICAR. Some years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom lath ; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path...
Page 4 - Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom lath ; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path, Through...