Ernest Maltravers

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Routledge, 1842 - 388 pages
 

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Page 89 - Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears — soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." SHAKESPEARE. BOAT SONG ON THE LAKE OF COMO.
Page 100 - what boots it with incessant care, To strictly meditate the thankless Muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair '<
Page 30 - that his last embrace had been without love! CHAPTER IX. "Thy due from me Is tears; and heavy sorrows of the blood, Which nature, love, and filial tenderness, Shall, 0 dear father, pay thee plenteously!" Second Part of Henry IV,, Act iv.
Page 50 - Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless — unfixed in principles and place." DRYDEN. "Whoever acquires a very great number of ideas interesting to the society in which he lives, will be regarded in that society as a man of
Page 24 - How like a younker or a prodigal, The scarfed bark puts from her native bay!" Merchant of Venice. WE are apt to connect the voice of Conscience with the stillness of midnight.
Page 299 - Th' uncertain glory of an April day; Which now shews all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Page 280 - This is not exactly the thing," said Ferrers, after twice reading the letter; "still it may hereafter be a strong card in our hands — we will keep it." So saying, he locked up the letter in his desk, and Cesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition sent, To be a moment's ornament.
Page 224 - projects, I think I see a way to push the good things of this world a few inches nearer to Lumley Ferrers." CHAPTER HI. "The pride too of her step, as light Along the unconscious earth she went, Seemed that of one, born with a right To walk some heavenlier element.
Page 95 - the following stanzas (as good singers are wont to do) with as much feeling as if he could understand them' — NIGHT AND LOVE. When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender
Page 137 - Yet might observers in his sparkling eye Some observation, some acuteness spy; The friendly thought it keen, the treacherous deem'd it sly; Yet not a crime could foe or friend detect, His actions all were like his speech correct — Chaste, sober, solemn, and devout they named Him who was thus, and not of

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