The Wife's Sister; Or, The Forbidden Marriage: A NovelW. Shoberl, 1851 |
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Page 264 - Princess" :"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.
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Page 257 - I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities : but I have That honourable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown...
Page 270 - END OF VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Stn*, THE WILL; oR, THE HALF-BROTHERS.
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Page 264 - She ended with such passion that the tear, She sang of, shook and fell, an erring pearl Los.t in her bosom : but with some disdain Answer'd the Princess, ' If indeed there haunt About the moulder'd lodges of the Past So sweet a voice...
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