Patronage. Comic dramas. Leonora. Letters

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Whittaker, 1848

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Página 336 - Be she meeker, kinder, than fhe turtle-dove or pelican : If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love? Or, her well-deservings known, Make me quite forget mine own? Be she with that goodness blest Which may merit name of Best; If she be not such to me, What care I how good she be?
Página 289 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew : Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save.
Página 343 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Página 465 - Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage: Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please.
Página 36 - And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place. To leave you thus might seem unkind, But see the Goat is just behind.
Página 21 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Página 313 - The practis'd languish, where well-feign'd desire Would own its melting in a mutual fire; Gay smiles to comfort ; April showers to move; And all the nature, all the art, of love.
Página 234 - Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds, that hold them play...
Página 409 - And shall others, with officious zeal, " Guess the faint wish, explain the asking eye ?" Alas ! it must be so — even were I to fly to him, my sensibility could not support the scene. To behold him stretched on the bed of disease — perhaps of death — would be agony past endurance.
Página 249 - Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.

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