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... Bulwer's " Maltravers . " The fresh and buoyant sense of being That bounds in youth's yet careless breast , Itself a star not borrowing light , But in its own glad essence bright . Moore . In girls we love what they are ; in lads what ...
... Bulwer's " Maltravers . " The fresh and buoyant sense of being That bounds in youth's yet careless breast , Itself a star not borrowing light , But in its own glad essence bright . Moore . In girls we love what they are ; in lads what ...
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... rock , till the heart frets itself to repose . Bulwer . The young and pure reject satire , and they do well to reject it , for satire is the disease of art . Dixon . Satiety of the past is our best safeguard , and 14 YOUTH .
... rock , till the heart frets itself to repose . Bulwer . The young and pure reject satire , and they do well to reject it , for satire is the disease of art . Dixon . Satiety of the past is our best safeguard , and 14 YOUTH .
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... Bulwer . In the lexicon of youth , which Fate reserves For a bright manhood , there's no such word as fail . Bulwer . Home - keeping youths have ever homely wits . There are gains for all our losses , There are balms for all our pain ...
... Bulwer . In the lexicon of youth , which Fate reserves For a bright manhood , there's no such word as fail . Bulwer . Home - keeping youths have ever homely wits . There are gains for all our losses , There are balms for all our pain ...
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... Bulwer . What's a fine person or a beauteous face , Unless deportment gives them decent grace ? Blessed with all other requisites to please , Some want the striking elegance of ease ; The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; They ...
... Bulwer . What's a fine person or a beauteous face , Unless deportment gives them decent grace ? Blessed with all other requisites to please , Some want the striking elegance of ease ; The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; They ...
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... Bulwer . Beauty is God's handwriting , a wayside sacrament . Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye , In every gesture dignity and love . Milton . O fatal beauty ! why art thou bestowed On hapless woman still to make her ...
... Bulwer . Beauty is God's handwriting , a wayside sacrament . Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye , In every gesture dignity and love . Milton . O fatal beauty ! why art thou bestowed On hapless woman still to make her ...
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