The wife's trials, Tom 1

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1855
 

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Strona 40 - And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin, And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day, And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said ; Till fast declining, one by one, The sweetnesses of love are gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, or like the stream That smiling left the mountain's brow.
Strona 249 - tis the twanging horn ! o'er yonder bridge That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ; He comes, the herald of a noisy world. With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks. News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Strona 293 - Farewell," said the sculptor, " you're not the first maiden, Who came but for Friendship and took away Love.
Strona 185 - There is no life on earth, but being in love ! There are no studies, no delights, no business, No intercourse, or trade of sense, or soul, But what is love ! I was the laziest creature, The most unprofitable sign of nothing, The veriest drone, and slept away my life Beyond the dormouse, till I was in love...
Strona 130 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Strona 168 - The fatall purpose of divine foresight Thou doest effect in destined descents, Through deepe impression of thy secret might, And stirredst up th' heroes high intents, Which the late world admyres for wondrous moniinents.
Strona 271 - As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow, While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while.
Strona 114 - That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air. There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Strona 114 - Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water and her keel...
Strona 16 - t ! it did endure the touch ; I saw and felt it ! Yet what I beheld And handled oft, did so transcend belief, (My wonder and astonishment pass'd o'er,) I faintly could give credit to my senses. Thou dumb magician, — [Taking out a key] —that without a charm Didst make my entrance easy, to possess What wise men wish, and toil for ! Hermes...

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