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Popular passages
Page 1 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 133 - Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sun-shine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
Page 74 - Of sweetbriar hedges I pursue my walk ; Or taste the smell of dairy ; or ascend Some eminence, Augusta, in thy plains, And see the country far diffused around, One boundless blush, one white empurpled shower Of mingled blossoms, where the raptured eye Hurries from joy to joy...
Page 264 - So far, that my doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter...
Page 20 - I find she loves him much because she hides it. Love teaches cunning even to innocence, And where he gets possession, his first work is to Dig deep within a heart, and there lie hid, And like a Miser in the dark to feast alone.
Page 157 - By Heav'n, my Love, thou dost distract my Soul; There's not a Tear that falls from those dear Eyes But makes my Heart weep Blood — O my Father! All is not well: I found her in the Morning, Not like a Bride, with all her Maids about her...
Page 176 - No part of conduct asks for skill more nice, Though none more common, than to give advice : Misers themselves in this will not be saving:, Unless their knowledge makes it worth the having ; And where's the wonder when we will obtrude A useless gift it meets ingratitude...
Page 275 - While I am compass'd round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
Page 112 - Oh, how this tyrant doubt torments my breast ! My thoughts like birds, who, frightened from their nest, Around the place where all was hushed before Flutter and hardly nestle any more.