The court favourite; or, Facts and fiction of the nineteenth century1840 |
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The Court Favourite: Or, Facts and Fiction of the Nineteenth Century Jane Roberts No preview available - 2015 |
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affectionate answered anxious appeared asked aunt Lucy beautiful believe better bless Bouverie bright eyes brother carriage cern certainly Charles child Churchill Constance Count Count Schwartzenbourg countenance Countess daugh daughter dear boy dear Carlos dear father dear Frank dear Grace door England exclaimed eyes fancy fear feel felt Frank Beresford George gout hand happy hear heart honour hope hour husband JANE ROBERTS Jerningham kind knew Lady Grace Lady Sophia leave looked marry mind morning mother never night nurse perhaps person pleasure poor pray quickly quiet replied Carlos replied her aunt replied Lady Scotland seemed servants sigh Sinclair sister smile soon Sophia D sorrow speak stood suppose sure tears tell TEMPLE BAR thing thought tion to-morrow told turned uncon uttered Vienna voice walk whilst whole wife wish woman word young
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Page 65 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 131 - O MEMORY ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain : Thou, like the world, th...
Page 237 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 112 - To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are denied, And pleased with favours given ; Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part, This is that incense of the heart, Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Page 335 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 124 - From avarice and ambition free, And pleasure's fatal wiles ? For whom, alas ! dost thou prepare The sweets that I was wont to share, The banquet of thy smiles...
Page 175 - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Page 304 - Oh Grave ! where is thy Victory ? Oh Death ! where is thy Sting ? THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
Page 251 - Hast thou piety, and perceivest them not thine error ? God created thee in mercy ; had he not intended thee to be happy, his beneficence would not have called thee into existence ! How...
Page 282 - ... the rivers — as it tarrieth not in any place, even so Fortune visiteth the sons of men : her motion is incessant, she will not stay — she is unstable as the winds : how then wilt thou hold her ? when she kisseth thee, thou art blessed : but behold as thou turnest to thank her, she is gone unto another.