Julia Tremaine: Or, The Father's Wish and Husband's Duty : a Tale for All Time

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Whilt and Yost, 1855 - 354 pages
 

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Page 107 - Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like, a better way.
Page 304 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 78 - Young Celadon And his Amelia were a matchless pair ; With equal virtue form'd, and equal grace, The same, distinguish'd by their sex alone : Her's the mild lustre of the blooming morn, And his the radiance of the risen day.
Page 160 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Page 333 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 302 - Came freshening, and reflecting all the scene : (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth you might, (I ween) Have...
Page 96 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 302 - So sweet a spot of earth, you might, I ween, Have guessed some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moon, had shaped it for themselves.
Page 247 - O, sir, to wilful men, The injuries, that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters...
Page 32 - And on the dark-green grass, beside the brink Of haunted stream, that by the roots of oak Rolls o'er the rocky channel, lie at large, And sing the glories of the circling year.

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