Entered the breast of the wild-dreaming boy ; And from that hour I grew — what to the last I shall be — thine adorer ! Well ! this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope : I thought of tales that by... Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian - Page 359by William Rounseville Alger - 1877 - 864 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1839 - 380 pages
...adorer ! • Well ; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter...gossips tell — how maidens sprung from Kings Have stoop'd from their high sphere ; how Love, like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
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...thine adorer ! Well ; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter...gossips tell — how maidens sprung from Kings Have stoop'd from their high sphere ; how Love, like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
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...which has often struck me forcibly, and which I may as well mention ; and that is, that tobacco, -" Like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the sceptre." There is nothing else, that I know of, that does so as effectually. I do remember that it has been... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 634 pages
...be^thine adorer ! Well ! this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope : I thought of tales that by the winter...gossips tell — how maidens, sprung from Kings, Have stoop'd from their high sphere ; how Love, like Death Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
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...thine adorer! Well; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope; I thought of tales that by the winter...gossips tell — how maidens sprung from Kings Have stoop'd from their high sphere; how Love, like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
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...thine adorer! Well; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter...hearth Old gossips tell— how maidens sprung from King Have stooped from their high sphere; how Love like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1853 - 202 pages
...thine adorer ! Well; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter...gossips tell — how maidens sprung from Kings Have stoop'd from their high sphere ; how Love, like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...Adorer ! Well ; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty if thou wilt — became A fountain of Ambition and bright Hope! I thought of tales, that by the winter...hearth Old gossips tell — how maidens, sprung from king?, Have stoop'd from their high sphere ! How love Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 412 pages
...thine adorer ! Well ; this love Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter...gossips tell — how maidens sprung from Kings Have stoop' d from their high sphere ; how Love, like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook... | |
| 1858 - 396 pages
...—thine adorer ! Well; this love, Vain, frantic, guilty, if thou wilt, became A fountain of ambition and bright hope ; I thought of tales that by the winter...like Death, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crool Beside the scepLre. Thus I made my home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died... | |
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