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" Tis left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower... "
The New Monthly Magazine - Page 396
1833
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 43

1859 - 424 pages
...for every action that would admit of one, and pity or silence when aught else was impracticable. " Gayer insects fluttering by! Ne'er droop the wing...; And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring Bister's shame.' " These lines were suggested by the conduct I witnessed in London from women to their...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower? No : gayer inseets fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can elaim Except an erring sister's shame. a • a * The Mind, that broods o'er pnilty woes, la like the...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 43

1859 - 406 pages
...of one, and pity or silence when aught else was impracticable. " Gayer insects fluttering by: Ne er droop the wing o'er those that die ; And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing bat their own ; And every woe a tear can cldim Except an erring sister's shame.' " These lines were...
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Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and Married

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1859 - 264 pages
...the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. SAMI:FL tlon saos. And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every w<wa tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. BTMH. I HAVE met with a good many young women,...
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Christian consolation; The way home; and Conjugal love

D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ! No ! gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. BYROX. " God help thee, daughter ! tell me, why That spirit passed before thine eye." " Father I know...
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Leaves from an Actor's Note-book: With Reminiscences and Chit-chat of the ...

George Vandenhoff - 1860 - 358 pages
...the brain stagger, and the victim fall! Have pity on her ! Let it not still be true that " Loveliest things have mercy shown To every failing but their...a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame !" There are, too, examples of humble, heroic, martyr-virtue, struggling against temptation, in obscurity...
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Dramatic Reminiscences: Or, Actors and Actresses in England and America

George Vandenhoff - 1860 - 346 pages
...hrain throb, and the victim fall ! Have pity on her ! Let it not still be true that "Loveliest tilings have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And...a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame ! " There are, too, examples of humble, heroic, martyr-virtue, struggling against temptation, in obscurity...
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The Mountain

Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - 1860 - 656 pages
...Byron divined, — " Gayer insects fluttering by, Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovlicr things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear mny claim, Except ." The mountain districts, of temperate latitudes, are not so obnoxious to the infliction...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ; No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it...
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Autobiography, letters and literary remains of mrs. Piozzi, ed ..., Volume 2

Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 582 pages
...gentlemen will fight duels, and how will it all end ? and * " These lovely things have mercy shown For every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame." — Byron. when ? The eclipse next week too, ' tegunt nigrae latitantia sidera nubes.' Indeed I have...
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