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... brow serenely calm . Anon , two shadowy forms rise on his view : One , mild and grave , with steady piercing eye , And lofty placid brow , and scanty locks , With YOUTH'S CHOICE .
... brow serenely calm . Anon , two shadowy forms rise on his view : One , mild and grave , with steady piercing eye , And lofty placid brow , and scanty locks , With YOUTH'S CHOICE .
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Jane Maria Davis. And lofty placid brow , and scanty locks , With form erect and firm in majesty ; - The other , graceful as the lovely bird That wings its way beneath a tropic sky , With plumage which the eye can scarce behold For ...
Jane Maria Davis. And lofty placid brow , and scanty locks , With form erect and firm in majesty ; - The other , graceful as the lovely bird That wings its way beneath a tropic sky , With plumage which the eye can scarce behold For ...
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... brow , Sits frowning monarch of the human mind , Inflicting with a despot's rod the scourge Of direst suff'ring the sick soul can know ! — Then teach I , how with evil good is mix'd , And that a keener zest such conflicts give For all ...
... brow , Sits frowning monarch of the human mind , Inflicting with a despot's rod the scourge Of direst suff'ring the sick soul can know ! — Then teach I , how with evil good is mix'd , And that a keener zest such conflicts give For all ...
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... brow And pulses tamed for patient ponderings , Art thou , O Reason , with thy rules severe And maxims grave , and facts , and sciences ! Full time ' twill be , when Fancy's spells are o'er And feeling sinks to sleep within my breast ...
... brow And pulses tamed for patient ponderings , Art thou , O Reason , with thy rules severe And maxims grave , and facts , and sciences ! Full time ' twill be , when Fancy's spells are o'er And feeling sinks to sleep within my breast ...
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... brow , so calm and clear , One sunless cloud it cast , Or frighted smiles from lips so dear , Or fail'd to note the past- That past whose reign did so abound With love , -Oh , then , Deeper than e'er did plummet sound , " I'll drown my ...
... brow , so calm and clear , One sunless cloud it cast , Or frighted smiles from lips so dear , Or fail'd to note the past- That past whose reign did so abound With love , -Oh , then , Deeper than e'er did plummet sound , " I'll drown my ...
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Page 172 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 191 - Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.
Page 174 - Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like a better way: those happy smilets That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
Page 172 - Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply...
Page 191 - And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. MACB. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not. LADY M. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.
Page 172 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less.
Page 192 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Page 185 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark. To cry "Hold, hold!
Page 191 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it, then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 193 - This is the very painting of your fear : This is the air-drawn dagger, which, you said, Led you to Duncan.