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Página 286 - Per correr miglior acque alza le vele omai la navicella del mio ingegno, che lascia dietro a se mar si crudele; e cantero di quel secondo regno dove 1'umano spirito si purga e di salire al ciel diventa degno.
Página 19 - She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment superior to strong esteem and lively friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another! and that other, a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat.
Página 149 - He was justly accounted a skilful poisoner who destroyed his victims by bouquets of lovely and fragrant flowers. The art has not been lost nay, it is practised every day by — the world ! — BISHOP LATHIER.
Página 90 - The ominous raven often he doth hear, Whose croaking, him of following horror tells, Begetting strange imaginary fear, With heavy echoes, like to passing bells: The howling dog a doleful part doth bear, As though they chimed his last sad burying knells; Under his cave the buzzing screech-owl sings, Beating the windows with her fatal wings.
Página 149 - Where what things are is nought to what they show ; Where merit's name laughs merit's self to scorn ! Where friendship and esteem, that ought to be The tenants of men's hearts, lodge in their looks And tongues alone. Where little virtue, with A costly keeper, passes for a heap ; A heap for none that has a homely one ! Where...
Página 19 - She will weep her woman's tears, she will pray her woman's prayers," Toll slowly. " But her heart is young in pain, and her hopes will spring again ' By the suntime of her years. "Ah, sweet May! ah, sweetest grief! — once I vowed thee my belief," Toll slowly. " That thy name expressed thy sweetness, — May of poets, in completeness! Now my May-day seemeth brief.
Página 249 - There's a dark spirit walking in our house, And swiftly will the Destiny close on us. It drove me hither from my calm asylum, It mocks my soul with charming witchery, It lures me forward in a seraph's shape, 1 see it near, I see it nearer floating...

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