Hearts ImportunateDodd, Mead, 1900 - 312 pages |
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Page 298 - Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, , It is but giving over of a game That must be lost Phi.
Page 176 - ... the race is to the swift and the battle to the strong.
Page 297 - Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting fiom all jealousy, A thing we all pursue; I know, besides, It is but giving over of a game That must be lost " ; and Bellario's speech in V. ii...
Page 246 - The elder had made up her mind, and when she made up her mind she acted accordingly; it was her rule, the habit of her life.