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" As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright. Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. "
The Aurora Borealis: Or Flashes of Wit; Calculated to Drown Dull Care and ... - Page 213
1831 - 216 pages
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 340 pages
...àvoaiav veKpwv, sirl ^dovos /cs/срауот' sv %/3fta тáфov. XCIV. 162 xcv. 9'lnolilrastbc Ucnuln. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...fall, And she, who meant no mischief, does it all. xcvi. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are ; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy...
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Forest Hill

Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: LONDOV: Printed by Schulie \- Co., 13, Poland Straet. FOREST HILL. CHAPTER I. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all....
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring, To revel in the roses ROWE'S Tamerlane. 5. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with rays resistless fall, And she, who means no mischief, does it all. AARON HILL. 6. He saw her charming,...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring, To revel in the roses HOWE'S Tamerlane. 5. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest...in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with rays resistless fall, And she, who means no mischief, does it all. AARON HILL. 6. He saw her charming,...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence. Shakspeare. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. Hill. MOTHERS. The mother in her office, holds the key Of the soul...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...ease, in writing, comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Pope. As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. A. Hill. ECHO. 263 ECHO. STINT thy babbling tongue! Tond echo, thou...
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A Gift for My Young Friends

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...doing it by a vain fear of what may happen. " Opportunity is the cream of time.'1' UNOBTRUSIVE BEAUTY. As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; I CONDITION OF MAN. FORBEARANCE. 235 THE VALUE OF HOPE. CEASE, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,...
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Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...remember it is with human faculties as with liquors, the lightest will be ever at the top.— Swift. CXL As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. J. Hill. Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. — •...
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The Book of Manners: A Guide to Social Intercourse

Etiquette - 1856 - 220 pages
...place to some poor uneducated person, who knows no better than to push directly in your way. MODESTY. " As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, So modest ease in beauty shines more bright." MODESTY is invariably an element of good breeding. It adorns every talent of which a...
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The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Mirror of Fortune: Or, The Analysis of Life

Caroline M. Mersereau - Amusements - 1860 - 370 pages
...herself she will not love Nothing can make her ; — , The devil take her. Sir John Suckling. L. — As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, So modest...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief, does it all. A. Hill. 4. i O. — Full oft have letters caused the writers To curse...
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