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Excellent creature! whose perfections make Even sorrow lovely! BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Mr. Villiers now became the constant visitor of Mrs. Elizabeth and her niece; and all discontent, all sadness, a…
One, within whose subtle being, As light and wind within some delicate cloud, That fades amid the blue noon's burning sky. Genius and youth contended. SHELLEY. The party returned to town, and…
Ah now, ye gentle pair,—now think awhile, Now, while ye still can think and still can smile. * * * So did they think Only with graver thoughts, and smiles reduced. LEIGH HUNT. A month stole…
Ma la fede degli Amanti È come l'Araba fenice; Che vi sia, ciaschun' lo dice. Ma dove sia, nessun lo sa. METASTASIO. Meanwhile Lady Lodore had been enduring the worst miseries of ill-fat…
And as good lost is seld or never found. SHAKSPEARE. Lady Lodore and Villiers met for the first time since Horatio Saville's marriage. Neither were exactly aware of what the other knew or tho…
Alas! he knows The laws of Spain appoint me for his heir; That all must come to me, if I outlive him, Which sure I must do, by the course of nature. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Edward Villiers was the …
The world is too much with us. WORDSWORTH. Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzhenry's morning task was to read the newspapers—the only intercourse she held with the world, and all her knowledge of it, was de…
She to a window came, that opened west, Towards which coast her love his way addrest, There looking forth, she in her heart did find Many vain fancies working her unrest, And sent her winged thoughts…
Sure, when the separation has been tried, That we, who part in love, shall meet again. WORDSWORTH. This little event roused Ethel to the necessity of struggling with the sentiment to which hithert…
Let me Awake your love to my uncomforted brother. OLD PLAY. Meanwhile Villiers and his bride proceeded on their way to Naples. It mattered little to Ethel whither they were going, or to whom. Edwa…
