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... possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in fetters of a golden tress , That ...
... possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in fetters of a golden tress , That ...
Page 33
... possessed . A smile is sleeping on thy lip , And a faint blush melting through The light of thy transparent cheek , Like a rose - leaf bathed in dew . Milton Whittier . Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare . And Beauty leads us by a ...
... possessed . A smile is sleeping on thy lip , And a faint blush melting through The light of thy transparent cheek , Like a rose - leaf bathed in dew . Milton Whittier . Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare . And Beauty leads us by a ...
Page 54
... possess the object loved . The generality of women mourn the death of their lovers , not so much from the love they bore them , as to appear more worthy of being loved . La Rochefoucauld . It is possible for men to be so changed by love ...
... possess the object loved . The generality of women mourn the death of their lovers , not so much from the love they bore them , as to appear more worthy of being loved . La Rochefoucauld . It is possible for men to be so changed by love ...
Page 56
... possess another , has lost possession of himself . What is so unearthly , so beautiful as the first birth of a woman's love ? The air of the heaven is not purer in its wanderings , its sunshine not more holy in its warmth . Bulwer Ours ...
... possess another , has lost possession of himself . What is so unearthly , so beautiful as the first birth of a woman's love ? The air of the heaven is not purer in its wanderings , its sunshine not more holy in its warmth . Bulwer Ours ...
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... possesses every thought , Fills every sense , and pants in every vein . Thomson . Love , nursed among pleasures , is faithless as they , But the love born of sorrow , like sorrow is true . Love makes all things possible . She loved me ...
... possesses every thought , Fills every sense , and pants in every vein . Thomson . Love , nursed among pleasures , is faithless as they , But the love born of sorrow , like sorrow is true . Love makes all things possible . She loved me ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Montesquieu Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Polly Esther Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth