I the cause— for whom were given Her peace on earth, her hopes in heaven !— Would," thought he, as the picture grows, "I on its stalk had left the rose I Oh, why should man's success remove The very charms that wake his love ! Her convent's peaceful... The Englishman: A Novel. In Six Volumes - Page 169by Medora Gordon Byron - 1812Full view - About this book
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...her hopes in heaven ! Would," thought he, as the picture grows, " I on its stalk had left the rose i Oh, why should man's success remove The very charms that wake his love !" Pretender by two men, — the skipper of a trading vessel, and his nephew. The following... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 742 pages
...her hopes in heaven !— Would," thought he, as the picture grows, "I on its stalk had left the rose I Oh, why should man's success remove The very charms that wake his love ! Her convent's peaceful solitude Ts now a prison harsh and rude; And, pent within the narrow... | |
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...hopes in heaven I — Would,' thought he, as the picture grows, ' I on its stalk had left the rose I Oh, why should man's success remove The very charms that wake his love ? — Her convent's peaceful solitude iga Is now a prison harsh and rude; And, pent within... | |
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