Played Out: A Novel

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Chapman and Hall, 1866
 

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Página 82 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Página 274 - But I will marry my own first love, With her primrose face, for old things are best; And the flower in her bosom, I prize it above The brooch in my lady's breast. The world is filled with folly and sin, And love must cling where it can, I say; For beauty is easy enough to win — But one isn't loved every day.
Página 295 - ... sat by the river, you and I, In the sweet summer time long ago, So smoothly the river glided by, Making music in its tranquil flow ; We threw two leaflets, you and I, To the river as it wandered on, And one was rent and left to die, And the other floated onward all alone ; And oh ! we were saddened, you and I, For we felt that our youth's golden dream Might fade, and our lives be sever'd soon, As the two leaves were parted in the stream.
Página 39 - As mine own shadow was this child to me, A second self, far dearer and more fair ; Which clothed in undissolving radiancy All those steep paths which languor and despair Of human things had made so dark and bare.
Página 144 - They to whom my foolish passion were a target for their scorn : Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a mouldered string ? I am shamed through all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.
Página 267 - ... would feel if he could look out of his grave and see what she had come to.
Página 230 - She could not make up her mind as to which would be the better part for her to play.
Página 33 - Roydon felt that the only thing left for him to do was to show that he could bear it.

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