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... Romeo Montecchi , for so the youth was called , coming on her left hand , and after the custom of the dance , taking her fair hand in his , the young lady , as if curious to hear him speak , said suddenly to him , « welcome here near me ...
... Romeo Montecchi , for so the youth was called , coming on her left hand , and after the custom of the dance , taking her fair hand in his , the young lady , as if curious to hear him speak , said suddenly to him , « welcome here near me ...
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... Romeo , there is not a lady here , who is so beautiful in my eyes , as you . » The youth al- ready enamoured , answered with warmth , « such as I am , I will ever be , if it displease you not , the faithful servant of your beauty . >> Romeo ...
... Romeo , there is not a lady here , who is so beautiful in my eyes , as you . » The youth al- ready enamoured , answered with warmth , « such as I am , I will ever be , if it displease you not , the faithful servant of your beauty . >> Romeo ...
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... Romeo loves me not , since from his hatred to my family , he could never seek ought but my shame ; and would he even take me for his wife , my father would never consent to give me to him ! » Then other thoughts arising , she would say ...
... Romeo loves me not , since from his hatred to my family , he could never seek ought but my shame ; and would he even take me for his wife , my father would never consent to give me to him ! » Then other thoughts arising , she would say ...
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... Romeo , as much as any one can lawfully love another : and conscious of your worth , I perhaps concede you more than is consistent with my honour . But if you ex- pect by long courtship , or any other means , to obtain more from me ...
... Romeo , as much as any one can lawfully love another : and conscious of your worth , I perhaps concede you more than is consistent with my honour . But if you ex- pect by long courtship , or any other means , to obtain more from me ...
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... Romeo at once bold , prudent , and respected , had opened his heart to him , and entrusted him with the se- crets he kept concealed from all others . Having found him therefore , Romeo freely explained to him his desire to espouse his ...
... Romeo at once bold , prudent , and respected , had opened his heart to him , and entrusted him with the se- crets he kept concealed from all others . Having found him therefore , Romeo freely explained to him his desire to espouse his ...
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Page 46 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear : Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 45 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 45 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 46 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page viii - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 231 - Le blason des armoiries de tous les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or...
Page 450 - Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects...
Page 363 - France ruinée sous le règne de Louis XIV, par qui et comment, avec les moyens de la rétablir en peu de temps...
Page 446 - Every reader of this journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Page 190 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . < To scorn delights, and live laborious days.