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Page 11
... Tell you what , She is just the sweetest baby in the lot . Mrs. Gage . It was a peculiarity of this baby to be always cutting leeth . Dickens . upon the Jean Paul . Banish the tears of children ; continual rains blossoms are hurtful ...
... Tell you what , She is just the sweetest baby in the lot . Mrs. Gage . It was a peculiarity of this baby to be always cutting leeth . Dickens . upon the Jean Paul . Banish the tears of children ; continual rains blossoms are hurtful ...
Page 30
... tell you this ; For few have borne unconsciously The spell of loveliness . Beauty gives The features perfectness , and to the form Whittier . Its delicate proportions , yet one glance of intellect , Like stronger magic , will outshine ...
... tell you this ; For few have borne unconsciously The spell of loveliness . Beauty gives The features perfectness , and to the form Whittier . Its delicate proportions , yet one glance of intellect , Like stronger magic , will outshine ...
Page 41
... Tell me no more Dryden . Of my soul's lofty gifts ! Are they not vain To quench its haunting thirst for happiness ? Have I not loved and striven , and failed to bind One true heart unto me , whereon my own Might find a resting - place ...
... Tell me no more Dryden . Of my soul's lofty gifts ! Are they not vain To quench its haunting thirst for happiness ? Have I not loved and striven , and failed to bind One true heart unto me , whereon my own Might find a resting - place ...
Page 67
... tell how precious is the slightest thing Affection gives and hallows . ' There's not an hour Moore . Miss Landon . Of day or dreaming night but I am with thee . There's not a wind but whispers of thy name , And not a flower that sleeps ...
... tell how precious is the slightest thing Affection gives and hallows . ' There's not an hour Moore . Miss Landon . Of day or dreaming night but I am with thee . There's not a wind but whispers of thy name , And not a flower that sleeps ...
Page 72
... tell . Scott . What avails ingenuous worth , Sprightly wit or noble birth ? All these virtues useless prove ; Gold alone engages love . Anacreon . O'er her warm cheek , the rising bosom , move The bloom of young desire and purple light ...
... tell . Scott . What avails ingenuous worth , Sprightly wit or noble birth ? All these virtues useless prove ; Gold alone engages love . Anacreon . O'er her warm cheek , the rising bosom , move The bloom of young desire and purple light ...
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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