Temple Bar, Volume 39Ward and Lock, 1873 |
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Page 45
... once in Spain , near Madrid . He will pay all my expenses . He wants me to paint a landscape for him there . " Quel bonheur ! Joy in the family . The remainder of the day is spent in packing up his portmanteau and getting his clothes ...
... once in Spain , near Madrid . He will pay all my expenses . He wants me to paint a landscape for him there . " Quel bonheur ! Joy in the family . The remainder of the day is spent in packing up his portmanteau and getting his clothes ...
Page 70
... once more a beggar : during her absence he had gambled away all that he possessed . After this he obtained a small appointment in a village of the island , and there his wife devoted her life to the education of her children , but more ...
... once more a beggar : during her absence he had gambled away all that he possessed . After this he obtained a small appointment in a village of the island , and there his wife devoted her life to the education of her children , but more ...
Page 71
... once more , although unwillingly , confided her daughter to Madame de Villette , who readily undertook the charge . The cause of Madame d'Aubigné's unwillingness was , that her sister - in - law was a Calvinist . The result justified ...
... once more , although unwillingly , confided her daughter to Madame de Villette , who readily undertook the charge . The cause of Madame d'Aubigné's unwillingness was , that her sister - in - law was a Calvinist . The result justified ...
Page 74
... once more pounced upon his victim . Scarron pos- sessed no more than he derived from the productions of his pen and the bounty of his friends , and all such means died with him . More scandals against poor Françoise ; Fouquet again ...
... once more pounced upon his victim . Scarron pos- sessed no more than he derived from the productions of his pen and the bounty of his friends , and all such means died with him . More scandals against poor Françoise ; Fouquet again ...
Page 75
... once more to a state of destitution . She applied to the King for its renewal , but in vain . She was on the point of accept- ing a small post in the household of Mademoiselle d'Aumale , who was about to leave France to wed the King of ...
... once more to a state of destitution . She applied to the King for its renewal , but in vain . She was on the point of accept- ing a small post in the household of Mademoiselle d'Aumale , who was about to leave France to wed the King of ...
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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!