HelenWhittaker, 1848 |
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Página 257 - Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before ; Can ready compliments supply On all occasions, cut and dry ; Such hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon $ For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing...
Página 9 - Th" endearments of our early days, And ne'er the heart such fondness prove, As when we first began to love.
Página 110 - ... by turning the soul inward on itself, its forces are concentred, and are fitted for stronger and bolder flights of science ; and that, in such pursuits, whether we take, or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service...
Página 55 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here !' Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow: The world may find the Spring by following her; For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root. As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Página 254 - Depend on th' importance of our conversations : Whereas some objections are thrown in our way, And words have been construed to mean what they say, — Be it known from henceforth to each friend and each brother, Whene'er we say one thing we mean quite another.
Página 256 - Graceful in the midst of all his pranks, he never goes too far — though far enough he has been known to go — he has crept into the armour of the great hero, convulsed the senate in the wig of a chancellor, and becomingly, decorously, put on now and then the mitre of an archbishop. "If good people," said Archbishop Usher, " would but make goodness agreeable, and smile, instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause...
Página 352 - Had we never loved so kindly, Hail we never loved so blindly, Never met, or never parted. We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 9 - Then lovely nature is expelled, And friendship is romantic held; Then prudence comes, with hundred eyes — The veil is rent, the vision flies. The dear illusions will not last; The era of enchantment's past; The wild romance of life is done; The real history is begun. The sallies of the soul are o'er, The feast of fancy is no more ; And ill the banquet is supplied By form, by gravity, by pride.
Página 328 - ... never entered London without feelings of pleasure and hope. It was to me as the grand theatre of intellectual activity, the field of every species of enterprise and exertion, the metropolis of the world of business, thought, and action. There I was sure to find the friends and companions of my youth, to hear the voice of encouragement and praise. There society of the most refined kind offered daily its banquets to the mind, with such variety that satiety had no place in them, and new objects...
Página 81 - I found it there, and thought it completely my own, had once said that 'every public man who has a cultivated and high-minded wife, has in fact two selves, each holding watch and ward for the other.