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...crinoline—- from Miss Flora MacFlimsey, who bestows on the poet, 'after twenty or thirty rejections,' those 'fossil remains which she called her affections,'...Not by moonbeam or starbeam, by fountain or grove, But in a front parlour, most brilliantly lighted. Beneath the gas fixtures we whispered our love. Without...

...I had just been selected as he who should throw all The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal On myself, after twenty or thirty rejections, Of those...styling "her heart." So we were engaged. Our troth Lad been plighted, Not by moonbeam or starbeam, by fountain or grove, But iu a front parlour, most...

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...I had just been selected as he who should throw all The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal On myself, after twenty or thirty rejections, Of those...which she called ' her affections, And that rather decay'd, but well-known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling ' her heart.' So we were...

...of such overwhelming despair." Again, when speaking " Of those fossil remains which she called her l affections/ And that rather decayed, but well-known...Which Miss Flora persisted in styling 'her heart," he has well painted the results of such indulgence. And in proportion to the deadening of the natural...

...I had just been selected as he who should throw all The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal On myself, after twenty or thirty rejections, Of those...called her " affections," And that rather decayed, but well known work of art, Which Miss Flora persisted in styling her " heart." So we were engaged. Our...

...endurance and loving sacrifice, of all gentleness and goodness, are not extinct but only slumbering in "That rather decayed but well-known work of Art, Which Miss Flora persisted in calling her heart." Perhaps some day, in some decennial panic, she too may be fortunately ruined ;...

...I had just been selected as he who should throw all The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal On myself, after twenty or thirty rejections, Of those...fossil remains which she called " her affections." So we were engaged. Our troth had been plighted, Not by moonbeam, nor starbeam, by fountain or grove,...