A pink wedding, Volume 3 |
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allude Apicius Asella asked Augustus Moltbury bury called Capricornus Captain Slessinger cheek clean potato course cousin daresay darling dear Julia delighted dinner duke duke's eyes face father favourite feel fox-hunting gazed Geoffrey Geoffrey dear girl gout grandpapa dear Grosvenor Gardens guests hand happy head hear heard heart horse hounds hunting Hurstenholme Jack Slessinger Jack Slessinger's John Peel kiss Lady Mabel Slessinger Larchington laughing look Lord Carristhorpe Marquis de Millefleurs Mauleverer mean mind Molt Moltbury's never night Oh dear old courtier old fellow old gentleman once platonic love reader recollect Reggy remark replied round says Augustus Scandringham shake side sixteen stone smile smoking smoking-room son's song sort sure sweet Tarter-Rickassid tears tell thank there's thing thought tion turned Twelfth Night vers de société Violet what's wife wish words young
Popular passages
Page 60 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 72 - She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; "The curse is come upon me!
Page 110 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play ; For some must watch, while some must sleep : Thus runs the world away.
Page 47 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 231 - GOD the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve, and keep you; the Lord mercifully with his favour look upon you; and so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace, that ye may so live together in this life, that in the world to come ye may have life everlasting.
Page 144 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's...
Page 114 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 253 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 95 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Page 38 - When we see a fellow loud and talkative, full of insipid life and laughter, we may venture to pronounce him a female favourite.