The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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... heart , there is no dis- puting the fact , that we do receive great pleasure from well - drawn pictures , whether they be with words or with colours , of those scenes in which the nothingness of man , as an object of the care of Pro ...
... heart , there is no dis- puting the fact , that we do receive great pleasure from well - drawn pictures , whether they be with words or with colours , of those scenes in which the nothingness of man , as an object of the care of Pro ...
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... heart and the lips , according to the manner of salutation , they gave and received an eternal adieu . Their courageous spirits appeared to defy death ; you saw in their tran- quillity the confidence which in these last moments was ...
... heart and the lips , according to the manner of salutation , they gave and received an eternal adieu . Their courageous spirits appeared to defy death ; you saw in their tran- quillity the confidence which in these last moments was ...
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... heart palpitate , and which I paint but too feebly , took place during the execution of the par- ties distributed about the sand - hills . At length there remained no more of all the prisoners than those who were placed near the pool of ...
... heart palpitate , and which I paint but too feebly , took place during the execution of the par- ties distributed about the sand - hills . At length there remained no more of all the prisoners than those who were placed near the pool of ...
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... hearts be sacrament ; If the unbounded goodness have infused A sacred ardour of a mutual love Into our species ; if those amorous joys , Those sweets of life , those comforts even in death , Spring from a cause above our reason's reach ...
... hearts be sacrament ; If the unbounded goodness have infused A sacred ardour of a mutual love Into our species ; if those amorous joys , Those sweets of life , those comforts even in death , Spring from a cause above our reason's reach ...
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... heart and marrow of the king's designs , And to observe the countenance and spirits Of such as are impatient of the rest , And wring beneath some private discontent : But past all these , there are a number more Of these state ...
... heart and marrow of the king's designs , And to observe the countenance and spirits Of such as are impatient of the rest , And wring beneath some private discontent : But past all these , there are a number more Of these state ...
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Page 83 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ; — VOL.
Page 314 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 144 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 387 - So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy.
Page 391 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked* head. And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 388 - Wherewith, alas ! reviveth in my breast The sweet accord, such sleeps as yet delight ; The pleasant dreams, the quiet bed of rest ; The secret thoughts, imparted with such trust ; The wanton talk, the divers change of play ; The friendship sworn, each promise kept so just, Wherewith we past the winter night away.
Page 16 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land.
Page 83 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 148 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 392 - ON Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming ! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring Of what thy gentle people did befall ; Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore. Sweet land ! may I thy lost delights recall, And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore, Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore...