The wife's trials, Volume 2

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1855

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Page 179 - It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 219 - Lucy. Why how now, Madam Flirt? If you thus must chatter; And are for flinging Dirt, Let's try who best can spatter ; Madam Flirt!
Page 194 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Page 40 - But you are no such man: you are rather point device in your accoutrements, as loving yourself, than seeming the lover of any other.
Page 1 - ... bounds of decency which the former are too apt to transgress, and which the latter never know. Courts are unquestionably the seats of GOOD-BREEDING, and must necessarily be so; otherwise they would be the seats of violence and desolation.
Page 83 - His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Page 226 - What oracle this darkness can evince ! Sometimes a fisher's son, sometimes a prince. It is a secret, great as is...
Page 320 - There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket seventy times as high as the moon.
Page 312 - And here we go backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy.

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