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... white ; Her voice was exquisitely tender ; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender ! Her every look , her every smile , Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought ' twas Venus from her isle , And ...
... white ; Her voice was exquisitely tender ; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender ! Her every look , her every smile , Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought ' twas Venus from her isle , And ...
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... white shut eyelids sleeping On those dangerous looks of hers , She seemed like a snowdrop breaking , Not wholly alive nor dead , But with one blind impulse making To the sounds of the spring overhead ; And I watched in the lamplight's ...
... white shut eyelids sleeping On those dangerous looks of hers , She seemed like a snowdrop breaking , Not wholly alive nor dead , But with one blind impulse making To the sounds of the spring overhead ; And I watched in the lamplight's ...
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... ! -goodness , how heavy ! It's really an elegant thing . It's a shame to kneel down in white satin— And the flounce , real old lace - but I must ; I hope they've got a clean cushion , They're usually 50 The Parlor Muse .
... ! -goodness , how heavy ! It's really an elegant thing . It's a shame to kneel down in white satin— And the flounce , real old lace - but I must ; I hope they've got a clean cushion , They're usually 50 The Parlor Muse .
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... white , we found , Like rows of sugared almonds , seated round . I leaned against the door - there was no chair . A stout , fierce gentleman , got up with care ( A cuirassier I set him down to be ) , Leaned on the other door - post ...
... white , we found , Like rows of sugared almonds , seated round . I leaned against the door - there was no chair . A stout , fierce gentleman , got up with care ( A cuirassier I set him down to be ) , Leaned on the other door - post ...
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... white as snow ; A brace of sparkling sapphires , Two cheeks of rosy dye , A pair of lips of ruby , And a fascinating sigh . Think'st thou she goes to worship ? Ah ! it is difficult to tell , But it's plain both saints and sinners ...
... white as snow ; A brace of sparkling sapphires , Two cheeks of rosy dye , A pair of lips of ruby , And a fascinating sigh . Think'st thou she goes to worship ? Ah ! it is difficult to tell , But it's plain both saints and sinners ...
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30 cents Americanism APPLETON Arthur Quartley Aunt Bachelor Bluff Bath buns Beauty Clare Bond Street bountiful Brer BUNCE Buridan's ass C. S. CALVERLEY Character charm cloth cold Conservatory dance darling dear defalcate denotes dictionary of rhymes Discriminate dooced Dora dress eyes FRANK gentleman GEORGE DU MAURIER girl glance GRAN'PA hair hand haste heart Hence Here's Hermioné HUSBAND imperfect tense JOHN LEECH JUVENILE kiss ladies lips look luxurious mamma married MAURIER'S Pictures means Miss MODERN POETS NELLIE never nice o'er PARCHMENT PAPER Parlor Muse person Pictures of English poems possum pretty Price Richard Grant White Rose SECOND DITTO DITTO SELECTION OF VERS sense side smile SOCIÉTÉ FROM MODERN Speech sweet Table d'Hôte talk thee thing thou thought tion Twas verb VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ William Sartain wish word writing York YOUNG OXFORD YOUTHFUL SWELL
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Page 39 - PART I At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper One whom I will call ELVIRA, and we talked of love and TUPPER, MR. TUPPER and the poets, very lightly with them dealing. For I've always been distinguished for a strong poetic feeling. Then we let off paper crackers, each of which contained a motto, And she listened while I read them, till her mother told her not to. Then she whispered, "To the ball-room we had better, dear, be walking; If we stop down here much longer, really people will...