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... grace ? Blessed with all other requisites to please , Some want the striking elegance of ease ; The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; They seem like puppets led about by wires . Men gaze on beauty for a while , Allured by ...
... grace ? Blessed with all other requisites to please , Some want the striking elegance of ease ; The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; They seem like puppets led about by wires . Men gaze on beauty for a while , Allured by ...
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... grace , A cast of thought upon her face , That suited well the forehead high , The eyelash dark and downcast eye . The mild expression spoke a mind In duty firm , composed , resigned . She looks as clear As morning roses , newly wet ...
... grace , A cast of thought upon her face , That suited well the forehead high , The eyelash dark and downcast eye . The mild expression spoke a mind In duty firm , composed , resigned . She looks as clear As morning roses , newly wet ...
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... grace , the magic of a name ? Light , lovely limbs , to which the spirit's play Gave motion airy as the dancing spray ; Campbell . Lips in whose rosy labyrinth when she smiled the soul . was lost , And then her look ! Oh , where's the ...
... grace , the magic of a name ? Light , lovely limbs , to which the spirit's play Gave motion airy as the dancing spray ; Campbell . Lips in whose rosy labyrinth when she smiled the soul . was lost , And then her look ! Oh , where's the ...
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... grace descending ; While countless charms , above , below , Sport and flutter round its snow . Campbell . I've known , if mortal ever knew , the spells of Beauty's thrall , And if my song has told them not , my soul has felt them all ...
... grace descending ; While countless charms , above , below , Sport and flutter round its snow . Campbell . I've known , if mortal ever knew , the spells of Beauty's thrall , And if my song has told them not , my soul has felt them all ...
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... Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye , In every gesture dignity and love . Milton . O fatal beauty ! why art thou bestowed On hapless woman still to make her wretched ? Betrayed by thee , how many are undone ! Give me a look ...
... Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye , In every gesture dignity and love . Milton . O fatal beauty ! why art thou bestowed On hapless woman still to make her wretched ? Betrayed by thee , how many are undone ! Give me a look ...
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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