Temple Bar, Volume 39Ward and Lock, 1873 |
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Page 11
... followed the printed lines ; but the mind took no cognisance of them . Memory was wanton to - night . She waved her hand over the past . The mist rolled away , and the familiar scene lay unfolded . She renewed the brainless pleasures of ...
... followed the printed lines ; but the mind took no cognisance of them . Memory was wanton to - night . She waved her hand over the past . The mist rolled away , and the familiar scene lay unfolded . She renewed the brainless pleasures of ...
Page 31
... rest is easy . " He moved forward ; I followed . The moon gave us sharp , short shadows . I breathed quickly . He heard my pantings , and took my arm . I She stood confronting us ; but she did not MY BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBOUR . 31.
... rest is easy . " He moved forward ; I followed . The moon gave us sharp , short shadows . I breathed quickly . He heard my pantings , and took my arm . I She stood confronting us ; but she did not MY BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBOUR . 31.
Page 43
... followed by a pot - au - feu and vegetables , and a large melon and salad . The Joulains eat fast and much ; the plates are emptied and polished up with bits of bread . Monsieur leaves the table several times with slices of meat in his ...
... followed by a pot - au - feu and vegetables , and a large melon and salad . The Joulains eat fast and much ; the plates are emptied and polished up with bits of bread . Monsieur leaves the table several times with slices of meat in his ...
Page 59
... followed by two cats ; he is going towards the room of his young protégée . " Poor thing ! I really love her , " he says to me ; " she is so unfor- tunate , so alone . My first and last thought is what I can do to alleviate her ...
... followed by two cats ; he is going towards the room of his young protégée . " Poor thing ! I really love her , " he says to me ; " she is so unfor- tunate , so alone . My first and last thought is what I can do to alleviate her ...
Page 59
... followed by two cats ; he is going towards the room of his young protégée . " Poor thing ! I really love her , " he says to me ; " she is so unfor- tunate , so alone . My first and last thought is what I can do to alleviate her ...
... followed by two cats ; he is going towards the room of his young protégée . " Poor thing ! I really love her , " he says to me ; " she is so unfor- tunate , so alone . My first and last thought is what I can do to alleviate her ...
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Page 187 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Page 195 - Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have...
Page 437 - Forthwith from every squadron and each band, The heads and leaders thither haste, where stood Their great commander ; godlike shapes, and forms Excelling human princely dignities, And Powers that erst...
Page 187 - And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 195 - Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 187 - Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 196 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 187 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 191 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 27 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!