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... spirit , and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast . Slow pass our days in childhood ; Every day seems a century . I would not waste my spring of youth In idle dalliance : I would plant rich seeds , Thomson . Bryant . To ...
... spirit , and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast . Slow pass our days in childhood ; Every day seems a century . I would not waste my spring of youth In idle dalliance : I would plant rich seeds , Thomson . Bryant . To ...
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... , her frown despair . And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph , a naiad , or a grace , Of finer form or lovelier face . Churchill . Paulding . Weeks . Scott . If spirits pure as those who kneel Around the throne 20 BEAUTY .
... , her frown despair . And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph , a naiad , or a grace , Of finer form or lovelier face . Churchill . Paulding . Weeks . Scott . If spirits pure as those who kneel Around the throne 20 BEAUTY .
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If spirits pure as those who kneel Around the throne of light above , The power of beauty's spell could feel , And lose a heaven for woman's love , What marvel that a heart like mine Enraptured by thy charms should be , Forget to bend ...
If spirits pure as those who kneel Around the throne of light above , The power of beauty's spell could feel , And lose a heaven for woman's love , What marvel that a heart like mine Enraptured by thy charms should be , Forget to bend ...
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... 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 heart so wise Could , unbewildered , meet those matchless eyes ...
... 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 heart so wise Could , unbewildered , meet those matchless eyes ...
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... spirit's purity . Percival . Mrs. Osgood . In her chin is a delicate dimple , By Cupid's own fingers impressed ; There Beauty , bewitchingly simple , Has chosen her innocent nest . Moore . Those eyes , whose light seemed rather given To ...
... spirit's purity . Percival . Mrs. Osgood . In her chin is a delicate dimple , By Cupid's own fingers impressed ; There Beauty , bewitchingly simple , Has chosen her innocent nest . Moore . Those eyes , whose light seemed rather given To ...
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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