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... her soft lips lie apart , And louder than her breathing beats her heart . Playful blushes , that seem naught But luminous escapes of thought . Byron . Moore . ' Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest BEAUTY . 25.
... her soft lips lie apart , And louder than her breathing beats her heart . Playful blushes , that seem naught But luminous escapes of thought . Byron . Moore . ' Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest BEAUTY . 25.
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... breath of fragrance in . Her pure and eloquent blood Dawes . Spoke in her cheeks , and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought . Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his mind ...
... breath of fragrance in . Her pure and eloquent blood Dawes . Spoke in her cheeks , and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought . Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his mind ...
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... , Crabbe . Byron . The mind , the music breathing from her face , The heart , whose softness harmonized the whole ; And oh , that eye was in itself a soul ! Byron . She was a form of life and light , That 28 BEAUTY .
... , Crabbe . Byron . The mind , the music breathing from her face , The heart , whose softness harmonized the whole ; And oh , that eye was in itself a soul ! Byron . She was a form of life and light , That 28 BEAUTY .
Page 42
... coquetting elsewhere . La Rochefoucauld . There is nothing but death Our affections can sever , And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever . Percival . The lover now , beneath the western star , Sighs 42 LOVE .
... coquetting elsewhere . La Rochefoucauld . There is nothing but death Our affections can sever , And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever . Percival . The lover now , beneath the western star , Sighs 42 LOVE .
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... breath of his heart . Moore . Friendship often ends in love , but love in friendship never . Colton . Alas ! the love of women , it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown , And if ' tis ...
... breath of his heart . Moore . Friendship often ends in love , but love in friendship never . Colton . Alas ! the love of women , it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown , And if ' tis ...
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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