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... ; when great , mad . Children blessings seem , but torments are ; When young our folly , and when old our fear . Heaven lies about us in our infancy . Otway . Wordsworth . Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought , To 12 YOUTH .
... ; when great , mad . Children blessings seem , but torments are ; When young our folly , and when old our fear . Heaven lies about us in our infancy . Otway . Wordsworth . Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought , To 12 YOUTH .
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... heaven for woman's love , What marvel that a heart like mine Enraptured by thy charms should be , Forget to bend at glory's shrine , And lose itself — ay , heaven - for thee ? Beauty and love - their emblems are flowers , Their date of ...
... heaven for woman's love , What marvel that a heart like mine Enraptured by thy charms should be , Forget to bend at glory's shrine , And lose itself — ay , heaven - for thee ? Beauty and love - their emblems are flowers , Their date of ...
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... heavens could drop down glorious . Lee . To beauty what man but maun yield him a prize , In her armor of glances and blushes ... heaven , That dazzles blind our reason . Moore . Campbell . For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile ...
... heavens could drop down glorious . Lee . To beauty what man but maun yield him a prize , In her armor of glances and blushes ... heaven , That dazzles blind our reason . Moore . Campbell . For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile ...
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... heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his mind possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a ...
... heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his mind possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a ...
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... 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 , give me a face That makes ...
... 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 , give me a face That makes ...
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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