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Page 9
... 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 they promise . Goethe . Youth is perpetual intoxication ; ' tis the fever of 9.
... 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 they promise . Goethe . Youth is perpetual intoxication ; ' tis the fever of 9.
Page 13
... without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die ! Lone as the hung - up lute , which ne'er hath spoken Since the sad day its master - chord was broken . Moore . Secrets with girls , like guns with boys , Are 2 YOUTH . 13.
... without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die ! Lone as the hung - up lute , which ne'er hath spoken Since the sad day its master - chord was broken . Moore . Secrets with girls , like guns with boys , Are 2 YOUTH . 13.
Page 15
... Moore . In general , a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self - conceit , which prin- cipally shows itself in despising what he has himself been . a little time before . Goethe . Be affable and ...
... Moore . In general , a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self - conceit , which prin- cipally shows itself in despising what he has himself been . a little time before . Goethe . Be affable and ...
Page 20
... Moore . Beauty has little to do with engaging the love of wo- man . The air , manner , tone , the conversation , the something that interests , the something to be proud of , - these are the attributes of the man made to be loved ...
... Moore . Beauty has little to do with engaging the love of wo- man . The air , manner , tone , the conversation , the something that interests , the something to be proud of , - these are the attributes of the man made to be loved ...
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... heaven is there . Beauty is a beam from heaven , That dazzles blind our reason . Moore . Campbell . For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile . Campbell . Oh , she has beauty might ensnare A conqueror's soul BEAUTY . 23.
... heaven is there . Beauty is a beam from heaven , That dazzles blind our reason . Moore . Campbell . For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile . Campbell . Oh , she has beauty might ensnare A conqueror's soul BEAUTY . 23.
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge 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 Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure 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