The muses of Mayfair, selections from vers de société of the nineteenth century, by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell1874 |
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... ! Surely Nature must have meant you For a Syren , when she sent you That sweet voice and glittering hair : --Was it touch of human passion Made you woman , in a fashion- Beauty Clare ? A 2 BEAUTY CLARE . I think not . The moral.
... ! Surely Nature must have meant you For a Syren , when she sent you That sweet voice and glittering hair : --Was it touch of human passion Made you woman , in a fashion- Beauty Clare ? A 2 BEAUTY CLARE . I think not . The moral.
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... touch The tips of scarce - grown fingers , Yet seems to think it overmuch If for a moment lingers Grasp that I hardly meant for such . She clutcheth toy or book , Or female hand beside her ; Now with askant , unsettled look Inviteth ...
... touch The tips of scarce - grown fingers , Yet seems to think it overmuch If for a moment lingers Grasp that I hardly meant for such . She clutcheth toy or book , Or female hand beside her ; Now with askant , unsettled look Inviteth ...
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... ( take my conviction , Because it has more than a hint Of a certain face I never Saw elsewhere touch or trace of , In women I've seen the face of ) — Just an etching , and , so far , clever . SONG . ROBERT BROWNING . AY , but I. you.
... ( take my conviction , Because it has more than a hint Of a certain face I never Saw elsewhere touch or trace of , In women I've seen the face of ) — Just an etching , and , so far , clever . SONG . ROBERT BROWNING . AY , but I. you.
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... world over ; So , why not witness , calmly gazing , If earth holds aught - speak truth - above her ? Above this tress , and this I touch But cannot praise , I love so much ! YOUTH AND ART . [ Extract . ] ROBERT BROWNING.
... world over ; So , why not witness , calmly gazing , If earth holds aught - speak truth - above her ? Above this tress , and this I touch But cannot praise , I love so much ! YOUTH AND ART . [ Extract . ] ROBERT BROWNING.
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... touch that wrist so slender , as your tiny gift you tender , And to read you're no offender in those laughing hazel eyes . Then to hear her call you " Harry , " when she makes you fetch and carry , O young man about to marry ! what a ...
... touch that wrist so slender , as your tiny gift you tender , And to read you're no offender in those laughing hazel eyes . Then to hear her call you " Harry , " when she makes you fetch and carry , O young man about to marry ! what a ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE amusing Araminta Artemus Ward Auf wiedersehen Author ball Ballads BELLE bird blue BOOKS PUBLISHED bright brown CHARLES CHARLES DICKENS charm CHATTO & WINDUS cheek cloth extra cloth gilt Coloured Crown 8vo dance dear dreams Edition Engravings eyes fair fancy Fcap feet flowers gilt edges girl glove gold golden hair hand hear heart Illus illustrated cover J. R. PLANCHÉ JOHN kiss lady laugh LEIGH LETTICE WHITE light lips LITTLE GERTY LONDON look love's lover maid Mark Twain's MORTIMER COLLINS Nearly ready neighbour Nelly never o'er once paper Pennell PICCADILLY Poems Portrait pretty PUBLISHED BY CHATTO rose Royal 16mo sigh Sing heigh-ho Sketches smile soft song Stories summer sweet tell tender thee There's thine things THOMAS HOOD thou thought Twas volume W. S. GILBERT WALTER SAVAGE LANDor whisper young youth
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Página 147 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer...
Página 145 - I SAW him once before^ As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
Página 27 - Roll of Battle Abbey; or, A List of the Principal Warriors who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and Settled in this Country, AD 1066-7.
Página 169 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Página 75 - OH, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Página 5 - Emanuel On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js.
Página 10 - German Popular Stories. Collected by the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited with an Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series Complete.
Página 321 - If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With kisses glad as birds are That get sweet rain at noon ; If I were what the words are And love were like the tune.
Página 16 - Their Poems, Letters, and Remains. With Reminiscences and Notes by W. CAREW HAZLITT. With HANCOCK'S Portrait of the Essayist, Facsimiles of the Title-pages of the rare First Editions of Lamb's and Coleridge's Works, and numerous Illustrations. " Very many passages will delight those fond of literary trifles ; hardly any portion will fail in interest for lovers of Charles Lamb and his sister.