The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance

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Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy
G. Henderson, Old Bailey, 1832
An illustrated women's magazine; includes extracts from novels, short stories, reviews, aphorisms, songs, philosophical discussions, and detailed descriptions of the latest clothing fashions from London and Paris.
 

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Página 308 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O, if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom, in some grove nigh; As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why.
Página 93 - A virgin scene! — A little while I stood, Breathing with such suppression of the heart As joy delights in; and with wise restraint Voluptuous, fearless of a rival, eyed The banquet; — or beneath the trees I sate Among the flowers, and with the flowers I played; A temper known to those who, after long And weary expectation, have been blest With sudden happiness beyond all hope.
Página 228 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Página 93 - Tall and erect, with milk-white clusters hung, A virgin scene ! — A little while I stood, Breathing with such suppression of the heart As joy delights in ; and, with wise restraint Voluptuous, fearless of a rival, eyed The banquet ; — or beneath the trees I sate Among the flowers, and with the flowers I played ; A temper known to those, who, after long And weary expectation...
Página 308 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O, if Jove's will Have...
Página 125 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes.
Página 204 - Yet the joy of grief it is mine to bear; I hear thy voice in the twilight air; Thy smile, of sweetness untold, I see When the visions of evening are borne to me ; Thy kiss on my dreaming lip...
Página 40 - The avenues to this house are along St. James's Park, through rows of goodly elms on one hand, and gay flourishing limes on the other ; that for coaches, this for walking; with the Mall lying between them. This reaches to my iron...
Página 42 - ... with rooms over them for servants: the upper sort of servants are lodged in the other wing, which has also two wardrobes and a store-room for fruit. On the top of all a leaden cistern holding fifty tons of water, driven up by an engine from the Thames, supplies all the water-works in the courts and gardens, which lie quite round the house; through one of which a grass walk conducts to the stables, built round a court, with six coach-houses and forty stalls.
Página 243 - That o'er this scene has come and gone — The shades of Rome would start and flee Unconsciously — I thought of thee. I thought of thee— I thought of thee, In Vallombrosa's holy shade, Where nobles born the friars be, By Life's rude changes humbler made.

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