Flirtation: A NovelBaudry's European Library, 1836 - 402 pages |
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... Nature left not Spring , her loved first - born , unhonoured , even in this treeless , flowerless , bar- ren region . The perfumed spirit of the season met the senses ; and the fresh , peculiar odours of the ocean , with its briny ...
... Nature left not Spring , her loved first - born , unhonoured , even in this treeless , flowerless , bar- ren region . The perfumed spirit of the season met the senses ; and the fresh , peculiar odours of the ocean , with its briny ...
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... nature , nothing discomposed him so much as being obliged to forego the regular occupations of the regular hours : and happy are those whose youth has been so spent that this blessed love of order gradually settles into a fixed habit in ...
... nature , nothing discomposed him so much as being obliged to forego the regular occupations of the regular hours : and happy are those whose youth has been so spent that this blessed love of order gradually settles into a fixed habit in ...
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... natural affection are dispersed , and vanish like those dulcet sounds which die in their very birth . It is , however , some consolation to think , that the ties of consanguinity cannot be broken by mortal hatred or mortal ma- lice ...
... natural affection are dispersed , and vanish like those dulcet sounds which die in their very birth . It is , however , some consolation to think , that the ties of consanguinity cannot be broken by mortal hatred or mortal ma- lice ...
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... natural . I never saw an affected Italian woman- -a vain one ? yes - but their vanity is as undisguised as their other sentiments ; they are less employed about the fashions of the day - I should say , generally speaking , less taken up ...
... natural . I never saw an affected Italian woman- -a vain one ? yes - but their vanity is as undisguised as their other sentiments ; they are less employed about the fashions of the day - I should say , generally speaking , less taken up ...
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... nature ! But " ( turning to Lady Frances ) " these are only the susceptibilities of the moment : -they cannot last . " Lord Mowbray did not know that , on the contrary , they were the healthful principles of an innocent mind ...
... nature ! But " ( turning to Lady Frances ) " these are only the susceptibilities of the moment : -they cannot last . " Lord Mowbray did not know that , on the contrary , they were the healthful principles of an innocent mind ...
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Abbotsbury Aldget Alpinia Altamont Ambrose Ambrose Philips amusement beauty believe Ben Hardy better called Carlton carriage Castle charming circumstances Colonel Pennington Corrie countenance cried dear Lord dear uncle dearest uncle delight Delvin Emily's endeavoured eyes favour feelings felt Fitzhammond Flirtation frae General's give Hall hand happy hear heard heart honour hope interest knew Lady Bellamont Lady Emily Lady Frances Lady Frances's Lady Glassington Ladyship lassie laugh leave Lepel live look Lord Bellamont Lord Mow Lushee manner Marian matter mind Miss Macalpine Montgomery Montgomery Hall morning Mowbray's neral never Neville niece night pain party passed perhaps person pleasure poor pray recollection rejoined replied Lord Mowbray Rosalinda Rose scene seemed servants sister smile Sorrento speak sure sweet talk taste tell there's thing thought turned uncle's voice walk wish woman words young
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Page 289 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 275 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 275 - These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Page 260 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...
Page 26 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 354 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 369 - Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Page 249 - But pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands, Her sweets no longer with her dwells: But scent and beauty both are gone, And leaves fall from her, one by one. Such fate ere long will thee betide When thou hast handled been awhile, With sere flowers to be thrown aside; And I shall sigh, while some will smile, To see thy love to every one Hath brought thee to be loved by none.
Page 43 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Page 42 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.