Coningsby: A Tragic TaleJ. J. Paschoud, 1819 - 286 pages |
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abode Adelinde Adelinde's affection agitation alarm Bard beams beauty Belville bloom bosom breathing burst Chapel charm clouds Coningsby's coppice coruscation countenance dared daugh daughter delight dream Earl of Essex endeavoured evil exclaimed exis eyes faculties fancy father fear feelings felt flattery gave genius hand happiness heard heart heath hour INSCRIPTION intellectual interview intreat knew light linde linde's listened look Lord Dray Lord Drayton lost Lyre manner marriage ment mind Miss Coningsby moon morning musing nature ness never night ningsby ningsby's pale passed passions Petrarch piercing Poet poetry pride Ralena rays recollections reux round scarcely scorn seemed sentiment shews shooting party shriek shrubbery shrubs sighed sir Walter Raleigh smile soft solitude sometimes sorrow sort soul spirit stranger sure talents tears tender thee thine thought threw tion tivate tone took trembling tuated tumults turbed uncon virtue voice wild window words
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Page 102 - Borne on immortal wings , The stream of Song could roll Exhaustless from etherial springs , That yet through countless tracts of years its echo tings.