Perplexity, by Sydney Mostyn, Tập 2 |
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Trang 227 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow; And work the simple vassals...
Trang 272 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Trang 179 - ... plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart : Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Trang 265 - Let her smile — and each dell is a dimple to me. Let her locks be the reddest that ever were seen, And her eyes may be e'en any colour but green ; For in eyes, though so various the lustre and hue, I swear I've no choice — only let her have two.
Trang 47 - ... an improvement upon five, yet it required some moments to recover from the shock. When I did so, I said humbly that I would go to bed. I suppose there is something in country air conducive to early rising ; for, contrary to my usual custom, I woke betimes the following morning. I went to my bedroom window and looked out. The room was at the back of the house, and overlooked a large lawn, divided from a field by an invisible fence. The practically useful had evidently here swamped the ornamental....