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Page 174 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill. Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne.
Page 241 - Then will I grant thee all thy soul's desire ; All that may charm thine ear, and please thy sight : All that thy thought can frame, or wish require,] To steep thy ravish'd senses in delight. The sumptuous feast, enhanc'd with music's sound , Fittest to tune the melting soul to love : Rich odors, breathing choicest sweets around...
Page 231 - Lear is doubtless correct when he says that it is "sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child.
Page 111 - It knows not wherefore : — What a kind of being is circumstance ! I am a soldier, and were yonder battlements, Garnish'd with combatants, and cannon-mounted, My daring breast would bound with exultation, And glorious hopes enliven this drear scene. Now dare not I scarce tread to my own hearing, Lest echo borrow superstition's tongue, And seem to answer me, like one departed.
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| Title | The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale ... Volume 1 of The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale, Mary Anne Neri Volume 1 of The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale. In Three Volumes, Mary Anne Neri |
| Author | Mary Anne Neri |
| Contributor | Joyce Gold |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
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