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" I strove to please, with all My little store of sense ; I strove to please, and infancy Can rarely give offence ; But when my artless efforts met A cold, ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck. How blessed are the beautiful... "
The Literary souvenir; or, Cabinet of poetry and romance, ed. by A.A. Watts - Page 307
edited by - 1830
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The Beauties of the English Annuals for MDCCCXXXV.

English fiction - 1834 - 672 pages
...How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er their birth ; 0 beauty ! in my nursery I learn'd to know thy worth ; — For even there, I often felt Forsaken and forlorn ; And wish'd — for others wish'd it too — I never had been born ! 1 'm sure I was affectionate, — But...
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The Eclectic Reader: Designed for Schools and Academies

Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...artless efforts met A cold, ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck. How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er...for others wished it too — I never had been born. I'm sure I was affectionate, — But in my sister's face There was a look of love, that claimed A smile...
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The Bondman: A Story of the Times of Wat Tyler

Mrs. O'Neill - Great Britain - 1835 - 214 pages
...How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er their birth ; 0 beauty ! in my nursery I learn'd to know thy worth ; — For even there , I often felt Forsaken and forlorn ; And wish'd — for others wish'd it too — I never had been born ! 1 'm sure I was affectionate, — But...
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The Bondman: A Story of the Times of Wat Tyler

Mrs. O'Neill - Great Britain - 1835 - 502 pages
...How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er their birth ; 0 beauty ! in my nursery I learn'd to know thy worth ; — For even there, I often felt Forsaken and forlorn ; And wish'd — for others wish'd it too— I never had been born ! 1 'm sure I was affectionate, — But...
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...artless efforts met A cold, ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself, In tears, upon her neck. How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er...— for others wished it too — I never had been bom ! I'm sure I was affectionate, — But in my sister's face, There was a look of love that claimed...
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The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the ...

Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...artless efforts met A cold, ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck. How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er their birth ; Oh, beauty ! in my nursery I learn'd to know thy worth, — For even there, I often felt Forsaken and forlorn ; And wish'd — for...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...artless efforts met A cold, ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck ! How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er...for others wished it too — I never had been born ! I'm sure I was affeetionate; But in my sister's face There was a look of love, that claimed A smile...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...artless efforts met A cold, ungentle check, 1 did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck ! I low blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er their...for others wished it too — I never had been born ! I'm sure T was affectionate ; But in my sister's face There was a look of love, that claimed A smile...
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The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck ! How blessed are the heautiful ! Love watches o'er their birth ; Oh, beauty ! in my...for others wished it too — I never had been born ! I'm sure I was affectionate ; But in my sister's face There was a look of love, that claimed A smile...
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...my artless efforts met A cold ungentle check, I did not dare to throw myself In tears upon her neck. How blessed are the beautiful ! Love watches o'er...for others wished it too — I never had been born ! I 'm sure I was affectionate, — But in my sister's face There was a look of love that claimed A...
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