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... Fashion . Arthur Guiterman Fashionable Novel , A. Thomas Haynes Bayly Female Phaeton , The . Matthew Prior Feminine Arithmetic . Charles Graham Halpine Five O'Clock . David Morton Florine . Thomas Campbell Friend and Lover . Mary Ainge ...
... Fashion . Arthur Guiterman Fashionable Novel , A. Thomas Haynes Bayly Female Phaeton , The . Matthew Prior Feminine Arithmetic . Charles Graham Halpine Five O'Clock . David Morton Florine . Thomas Campbell Friend and Lover . Mary Ainge ...
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... Fashion , " from his book Laughing Muse , and for Mr. Justin Hu McCarthy's " Ballade of Dead Ladies , ” his novel If I were King . 661 " Messrs . Houghton Mifflin Company " On An Intaglio Head of Minerva " and " lia , " by Thomas Bailey ...
... Fashion , " from his book Laughing Muse , and for Mr. Justin Hu McCarthy's " Ballade of Dead Ladies , ” his novel If I were King . 661 " Messrs . Houghton Mifflin Company " On An Intaglio Head of Minerva " and " lia , " by Thomas Bailey ...
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... fashion makes duties , The praisings of fiddles and flutes , The luxury of looking at Beauties , The tedium of talking to mutes ; The female diplomatists , planners Of matches for Laura and Jane ; The ice of her Ladyship's manners , The ...
... fashion makes duties , The praisings of fiddles and flutes , The luxury of looking at Beauties , The tedium of talking to mutes ; The female diplomatists , planners Of matches for Laura and Jane ; The ice of her Ladyship's manners , The ...
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... fashion was - - not to be late ; When all who had money and leisure Grew rural o'er ices and wines , All pleasantly toiling for pleasure , All hungrily pining for pines , And making of beautiful speeches , And marring of beautiful shows ...
... fashion was - - not to be late ; When all who had money and leisure Grew rural o'er ices and wines , All pleasantly toiling for pleasure , All hungrily pining for pines , And making of beautiful speeches , And marring of beautiful shows ...
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... fashion . I had been to the play With my pearl of a Peri — But , for all I could say , She declared she was weary , hat " the place was so crowded and hot , and she could n't abide that Dundreary . " 1 ATALANTA IN CAMDEN - TOWN Then I ...
... fashion . I had been to the play With my pearl of a Peri — But , for all I could say , She declared she was weary , hat " the place was so crowded and hot , and she could n't abide that Dundreary . " 1 ATALANTA IN CAMDEN - TOWN Then I ...
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Page 167 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 267 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 268 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer...
Page 85 - HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
Page 12 - For while she makes her silk-worms beds With all the tender things I swear, Whilst all the house my passion reads In papers round her baby's hair, She may receive and own my flame; For though the strictest prudes should know it, She'll pass for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet.
Page 86 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 207 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 254 - Ah me! how quick the days are flitting! I mind me of a time that's gone, When here I'd sit, .as now I'm sitting, In this same place — but not alone. A fair young form was nestled near me, A dear, dear face looked fondly up, And sweetly spoke and smiled to cheer me — There's no one now to share my cup.
Page 87 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life ; Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Page 266 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.