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... thou dear plaything , dear deceit ! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart , And gives it a new pulse unknown before . Blair The fair sex should be always fair , and no man Fill thirty should perceive there's a plain woman ...
... thou dear plaything , dear deceit ! That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart , And gives it a new pulse unknown before . Blair The fair sex should be always fair , and no man Fill thirty should perceive there's a plain woman ...
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... thou bestowed On hapless woman still to make her wretched ? Betrayed by thee , how many are undone ! Give me a look , give me a face That makes simplicity a grace— Robes loosely flowing , hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me ...
... thou bestowed On hapless woman still to make her wretched ? Betrayed by thee , how many are undone ! Give me a look , give me a face That makes simplicity a grace— Robes loosely flowing , hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me ...
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... thou art twice blessed : thou blessest the gazer and the possessor . A sweet disposition , a lovely soul , an affectionate nature will speak in the eyes , the lips , the brow , and become the cause of beauty . She was like A dream of ...
... thou art twice blessed : thou blessest the gazer and the possessor . A sweet disposition , a lovely soul , an affectionate nature will speak in the eyes , the lips , the brow , and become the cause of beauty . She was like A dream of ...
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... Thou art beautiful , young lady ; But I need not 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 ...
... Thou art beautiful , young lady ; But I need not 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 ...
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... thou marry for beauty , thou bindest thy- self all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year ; and when thou hast it , it will be to thee of no price at all . Raleigh . The most beautiful may be the ...
... thou marry for beauty , thou bindest thy- self all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year ; and when thou hast it , it will be to thee of no price at all . Raleigh . The most beautiful may be the ...
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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