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... ; Carneades , a solitary kingdom ; Homer , a glorious gift of Nature ; while Ovid styled it the gift of the gods . Trust not too much to an enchanting face . Virgil . Is she not more than painting can express , Or 22 BEAUTY .
... ; Carneades , a solitary kingdom ; Homer , a glorious gift of Nature ; while Ovid styled it the gift of the gods . Trust not too much to an enchanting face . Virgil . Is she not more than painting can express , Or 22 BEAUTY .
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... trust I more to woman's worth . Moore . Byron . Oh , too convincing , dangerously dear In woman's eye , the unanswerable tear . That weapon of her weakness she can wield To save , subdue - at once her spear and shield . Avoid it ...
... trust I more to woman's worth . Moore . Byron . Oh , too convincing , dangerously dear In woman's eye , the unanswerable tear . That weapon of her weakness she can wield To save , subdue - at once her spear and shield . Avoid it ...
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... , Save in the office and affairs of love ; Goethe . Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself , and trust no agent . Shakspeare . When thou art near , The sweetest joys still sweeter LOVE . 45.
... , Save in the office and affairs of love ; Goethe . Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself , and trust no agent . Shakspeare . When thou art near , The sweetest joys still sweeter LOVE . 45.
Page 121
... Trust me , no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce , unutterable pain He feels , who night and day , devoid of rest , Carries his own accuser in his breast . Oh grant me , Heaven , a middle state , Neither too humble nor ...
... Trust me , no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce , unutterable pain He feels , who night and day , devoid of rest , Carries his own accuser in his breast . Oh grant me , Heaven , a middle state , Neither too humble nor ...
Page 123
... or corn in chaff , Believe a woman or an epitaph , Or any other thing that's false , before Pope . Churchill . You trust in critics who themselves are sore . Byron . Do not insult calamity . It is a barbarous grossness MAN . 123.
... or corn in chaff , Believe a woman or an epitaph , Or any other thing that's false , before Pope . Churchill . You trust in critics who themselves are sore . Byron . Do not insult calamity . It is a barbarous grossness MAN . 123.
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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