A Faithful Woman, Volume 1 |
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Page 172 - O memory! thou fond deceiver — Still importunate and vain; To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain.
Page 204 - Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. What is that spell, that thus his lawless train Confess and envy, yet oppose in vain? What should it be, that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
Page 253 - They look'da manly, generous generation ; Beards, shoulders, eyebrows, broad, and square, and thick, Their accents firm and loud in conversation, Their eyes and gestures eager, sharp, and quick, Showed them prepared, on proper provocation, To give the lie, pull noses, stab, and kick ; And for that very reason, it is said, They were so very courteous and well-bred. " The ladies look'd of an heroic race— At first a general likeness struck your eye...
Page 241 - I have a heart! I'd live, And die for him whose worth I knew — But could not clasp his hand and give My full heart forth as talkers do. And they who loved me, the kind few, Believed me changed in heart and tone, And left me, while it burned as true, To live alone ! — to live alone...
Page 95 - I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart; But I know that I love thee — whatever thou art.
Page 49 - Murder most foul as at the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Page 155 - Be hush'd, my dark spirit! for wisdom condemns When the faint and the feeble deplore; Be strong as the rock of the ocean that stems A thousand wild waves on the shore ! Through the perils of chance, and the scowl of disdain, May thy front be unaltered, thy courage elate; Yea! even the name I have worshipped in vain Shall awake not the sigh of remembrance again, To bear is to conquer our fate THE LAST MAN.
Page 172 - O MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys, recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain ; Thou, like the world, the opprest oppressing, Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe ! And he who wants each other blessing, In thee must ever find a foe.
Page 128 - And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and torture, and the touch of joy ; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils ; They do divide our being; they become A portion of ourselves as of our time, And look like heralds of eternity.
Page 99 - There's as good fish in the sea as ever were caught, and, confound 'em, they stay there. — Philadelphia Times. QUALIFIED. SCHOLASTICUS HARUUP : " I am a college student, and I want a place to work in your hotel this summer.