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Page 28
... grown child , With hue as bright and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in folly , closed in tears . The light of love , the purity of grace , Crabbe . Byron . The mind , the music breathing from her face , The heart ...
... grown child , With hue as bright and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in folly , closed in tears . The light of love , the purity of grace , Crabbe . Byron . The mind , the music breathing from her face , The heart ...
Page 35
... grows familiar to the lover , Fades in his eye , and palls upon the sense . Addison . We seldom appreciate beauty until it is on the decline , and then we cling to and treasure its wreck with jealous care . Beauty in the possession of ...
... grows familiar to the lover , Fades in his eye , and palls upon the sense . Addison . We seldom appreciate beauty until it is on the decline , and then we cling to and treasure its wreck with jealous care . Beauty in the possession of ...
Page 40
... grow where it will , cannot flourish alone , But will lean to the nearest and loveliest thing It can twine to itself , and make closely its own . Moore . The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry . La Rochefoucauld . No eye ...
... grow where it will , cannot flourish alone , But will lean to the nearest and loveliest thing It can twine to itself , and make closely its own . Moore . The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry . La Rochefoucauld . No eye ...
Page 42
... grow Intenser in our absence , and again Burn with a tender glow when I return . Of all the tyrants that the world affords , Our own affections are the fiercest lords . Pope . Percival . Then comes the parting hour , and what arise When ...
... grow Intenser in our absence , and again Burn with a tender glow when I return . Of all the tyrants that the world affords , Our own affections are the fiercest lords . Pope . Percival . Then comes the parting hour , and what arise When ...
Page 48
... Such language as the tongue hath never spoken . Mrs. Sigourney . Those lips , that then so fearless grown , Never until that instant came Near his unasked , or without blame . Moore . In a thousand pounds of law there is not an 48 LOVE .
... Such language as the tongue hath never spoken . Mrs. Sigourney . Those lips , that then so fearless grown , Never until that instant came Near his unasked , or without blame . Moore . In a thousand pounds of law there is not an 48 LOVE .
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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