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... eye , scarce heav'd her breast ; Or if a tear , she strove to check , A truant tear stole down her neck , It seem'd a drop that , from his bill , The linnet casts , beside a rill , Flirting his sweet and tiny shower Upon a milk - white ...
... eye , scarce heav'd her breast ; Or if a tear , she strove to check , A truant tear stole down her neck , It seem'd a drop that , from his bill , The linnet casts , beside a rill , Flirting his sweet and tiny shower Upon a milk - white ...
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... eyes no longer flashed with their old bright expression , but at times drooped sadly under their long lashes , she said nothing ; and Amy , while obliged sometimes to talk of her life at Brampton , never mentioned Charles's name ; yet ...
... eyes no longer flashed with their old bright expression , but at times drooped sadly under their long lashes , she said nothing ; and Amy , while obliged sometimes to talk of her life at Brampton , never mentioned Charles's name ; yet ...
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... eyes , although she was too shy to say a word , while Amy , if she did not say she was glad to see him , did not rebuke him for coming , nor appear to look on his visit as an intrusion ; and soon he was quite at home with them all , and ...
... eyes , although she was too shy to say a word , while Amy , if she did not say she was glad to see him , did not rebuke him for coming , nor appear to look on his visit as an intrusion ; and soon he was quite at home with them all , and ...
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... eyes of Robert Vavasour , he who loved her so dearly , and whom she had just promised to try in time to love with all her heart . All her heart ! Was this trembling at the mere mention of another's name the begin- ning of her promise ...
... eyes of Robert Vavasour , he who loved her so dearly , and whom she had just promised to try in time to love with all her heart . All her heart ! Was this trembling at the mere mention of another's name the begin- ning of her promise ...
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... eyes , show him the snare into which he had fallen ; the folly he had been guilty of through the cunning and duplicity of Frances . Anne sang all the way downstairs to the drawing - room as she went to dinner . The idea of having ...
... eyes , show him the snare into which he had fallen ; the folly he had been guilty of through the cunning and duplicity of Frances . Anne sang all the way downstairs to the drawing - room as she went to dinner . The idea of having ...
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Page 140 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music— summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 179 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 140 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Page 179 - I have done ; and howsoever My language may appear to you, it carries No other than my fair and just intent To your delights, without curb to their modest And noble freedom.