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... true empire , of beauty . There was a soft and pensive 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 ...
... true empire , of beauty . There was a soft and pensive 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 ...
Page 41
... true heart unto me , whereon my own Might find a resting - place , a home for all Its burden of affection ? There's not an hour Mrs. Hemans . Of day or dreaming night but I am with thee ; There's not a wind but whispers of thy name ...
... true heart unto me , whereon my own Might find a resting - place , a home for all Its burden of affection ? There's not an hour Mrs. Hemans . Of day or dreaming night but I am with thee ; There's not a wind but whispers of thy name ...
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... . Scott . For I have heard that lovers prove deceivers , When once they find that maidens are believers . Flowers are love's truest language . Park Benjamin . Envy is destroyed by true friendship , and coquetry by LOVE . 43.
... . Scott . For I have heard that lovers prove deceivers , When once they find that maidens are believers . Flowers are love's truest language . Park Benjamin . Envy is destroyed by true friendship , and coquetry by LOVE . 43.
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Envy is destroyed by true friendship , and coquetry by true love . La Rochefoucauld . What is man's love ? His vows are broke Even while his parting kiss is warm . Oh the tender ties Close twisted with the fibres of the heart ...
Envy is destroyed by true friendship , and coquetry by true love . La Rochefoucauld . What is man's love ? His vows are broke Even while his parting kiss is warm . Oh the tender ties Close twisted with the fibres of the heart ...
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... true love , true friendship is still rarer . La Rochefoucauld . There is no truth in love . It alters with the smile of fortune's sun , As flowers do change by culture . To kneel at many a shrine , Yet lay the heart on none , To think ...
... true love , true friendship is still rarer . La Rochefoucauld . There is no truth in love . It alters with the smile of fortune's sun , As flowers do change by culture . To kneel at many a shrine , Yet lay the heart on none , To think ...
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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