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Page 65 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life.
Page 80 - If she be not fair for me, what care I how fair she be ? " But he did care, and he told himself that the song did him no good.
Page 86 - Ripples and glances on the confluent streams. A lovelier, purer light than that of day Rests on the hills ; and, oh ! how awfully Into that deep and tranquil firmament The summits of Auseva rise serene ! The watchman on the battlements partakes The stillness of the solemn hour ; he feels The silence of the earth, the endless sound Of flowing water soothes him, and the stars — Which in that brightest moonlight...
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Page 104 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 197 - Who, when he is to treat With sick folks, women, 'those whom passions sway, Allows for that, and keeps his constant way ; Whom others' faults do not defeat.; But though men fail him, yet his part doth play.
Page 244 - For it is certain that whatever may have been the case among men and women in ancient days, it is not true in the history of modern society, that ' out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh ;' but that the very reverse is the fact. Edith returned home to find Stirling, who had come from his official duties a few minutes before her, impatiently longing for her presence. Margaret had to be introduced to him, to claim his friendship almost before...
Page 86 - How calmly gliding through the dark blue sky The midnight moon ascends! Her placid beams, Through thinly scattered leaves and boughs grotesque. Mottle with mazy shades the orchard slope ; Here, o'er the chesnut's fretted foliage grey And massy, motionless they spread ; here shine Upon the crags, deepening with blacker night Their chasms ; and there the glittering argentry Ripples and glances on...
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