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" HE that loves a rosy Cheek, Or a coral Lip admires ; Or from star-like Eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires : As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away ! But a smooth and steadfast Mind, Gentle Thoughts, and calm Desires, Hearts... "
Salad for the Social, by the Author of Salad for the Solitary. - Page 108
by Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 408 pages
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying fires. Where these are not, I despise, Lovely cheeks, or lips or eyes. No tears, Celia, now shall win My resolv'd heart to return ; I have search'd thy soul within, And find...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying fires. Where these are not, I despise, Lovely cheeks, or lips or eyes. No tears, Celia, now shall win My resolv'd heart to return ; I have seareh'd thy soul within, And find...
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The Corsair: A Gazette of Literature, Art, Dramatic Criticism ..., Volume 1

1839 - 694 pages
...doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and...love combined, Kindle never-dying fires. Where these arc not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes. We add the following, by a modern Pocl, much in...
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Lyric Poetry of Glees, Madrigals, Catches, Rounds, Canons, and Duets: As ...

Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...fire, As old Time makes these decay, So his flame must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mien, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal...fires : Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, and lips, and eyes. Words by T. Carew. CANON (three in one).—W. HORSLEY, Mus. Bac. (Alto, Tenor,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips or eyes. No tears, Celia, now shall win My resolved heart to return ; I have search'd thy soul within, And find...
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The Rover, Volume 1

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1843 - 528 pages
...expression that could induce her either to continue or forbear another stanza. She again sung : •'• But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never dyinff fires; Where these are not I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes."...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 123

American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts,...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes. It would be a task to scrutinize at length the varied lyrical treasures of the Elizabethan era, as...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
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Specimens of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and stedfast de the balls that round me fly, Lest precious teurs should drop from Susan's ere. tins. Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips or eyes. No tears, Celia, now shall win...
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A Love Gift for ...

Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
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