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... feel the restless woe " Which stings the soul , with vain re- gret , " Of him who never can forget . " SKETCHES OF FEMALE BIOGRAPHY . No. I. ISABELLA ANDREINI , A native of Padua , was a very cele- brated actress , towards the beginning ...
... feel the restless woe " Which stings the soul , with vain re- gret , " Of him who never can forget . " SKETCHES OF FEMALE BIOGRAPHY . No. I. ISABELLA ANDREINI , A native of Padua , was a very cele- brated actress , towards the beginning ...
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... feel the north breeze chill as death ; Let grateful love quell maiden shame , And grant him bliss who brings thee fame . " MISCELLANEOUS . A celebrated city character , of gor- mandizing notoriety , who , from the humble occupation of a ...
... feel the north breeze chill as death ; Let grateful love quell maiden shame , And grant him bliss who brings thee fame . " MISCELLANEOUS . A celebrated city character , of gor- mandizing notoriety , who , from the humble occupation of a ...
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... feeling , " the subject shall drop . " MURDER EXTRAORDINARY . 66 An Irishwoman , named Katty Cree- don , charged her ... feel can ne'er be true ; For , by the death - blow of my Hope , My memory immortal grew . VOL . I. ] [ No. II ...
... feeling , " the subject shall drop . " MURDER EXTRAORDINARY . 66 An Irishwoman , named Katty Cree- don , charged her ... feel can ne'er be true ; For , by the death - blow of my Hope , My memory immortal grew . VOL . I. ] [ No. II ...
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... feel- foes , I loath'd the languor of repose ; Now nothing left to love or hate , No more with hope or pride elate ; I'd rather be the thing that crawls Most noxious o'er a dungeon's walls , Than pass my dull , unvarying days , Condemn ...
... feel- foes , I loath'd the languor of repose ; Now nothing left to love or hate , No more with hope or pride elate ; I'd rather be the thing that crawls Most noxious o'er a dungeon's walls , Than pass my dull , unvarying days , Condemn ...
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... allusion to his tribe . But this man had taught her to ride , reared her favourite wolf- dog , and shown other traits of diligent affection which invited trust . Feodo- The poet's fine phrenzy to feel is not mine , 84 SATURDAY NIGHT .
... allusion to his tribe . But this man had taught her to ride , reared her favourite wolf- dog , and shown other traits of diligent affection which invited trust . Feodo- The poet's fine phrenzy to feel is not mine , 84 SATURDAY NIGHT .
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Page 3 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 3 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Page 4 - O Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent ! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Page 77 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 2 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Page 2 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Page 157 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle, of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness. Instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar, of gold and jewels.
Page 3 - With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire : Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 2 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnoticed fleet; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears. The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years; Anticipation forward points the view; The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a' wi
Page 4 - And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.