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Page 127 - If, strongly charm'd, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure stray ; Ruin ensues, reproach and endless shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame ; In vain, with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain, look back on what she was before ; She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more.
Page 43 - Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. Leicester, she cried, is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this lonely grove. Immured in shameful privity...
Page 127 - Free and unquestion'd, through the wilds of love; While woman, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor weak woman swerve from, virtue's rule, If, strongly charm'd, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure stray, Ruin ensues, reproach and endless shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame: In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back...
Page 1 - she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief.
Page 60 - Let not your heart be troubled ; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions ; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. These things have I spoken unto you that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.
Page 126 - Such is the fate unhappy women find, And such the curse entailed upon our kind, That man, the lawless libertine, may rove Free and unquestioned through the wilds of love; While woman, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor weak woman swerve from virtue's rule, If, strongly charmed, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure stray; Ruin ensues, reproach and endless shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame. In vain with tears...
Page 178 - ... shown the two poor men on board, and, as far as I could judge, they appeared to have become perfectly sane. The same kindness was also shown the mate and the other rescued seamen of the lost brig. We landed the mate and seamen, as well as the two brothers, at Bridge Town, in the island of Barbadoes, but from that day to this I have never heard a word about them. Harry Higginson, some time before the Captain's yarn concluded, got up from his seat and went to the side of our cabin school-room and...
Page 130 - And the old woman wiped her eyes with the corner of her apron, for the tender memory of the baby-days of her darling had moistened them with tears.
Page 244 - ... soon I limped up the hill. I could tell by the way the dog was barking that he was getting pretty close to Mr. Wildcat. He soon had him up a tree, but oh, the rain and wind! The rain was just pouring down. I aimed at his ear but hit just behind. But down he came and then for a fight The dog grabbed him by the back of the neck and gave him a good shake. And then the wildcat would get hold of the dog with his claws, and the dog would let go and then grab him again. I kept trying to get a good shot,...
Page 136 - ... to the man whom she had sworn to love, honour, and obey,— however false, however unworthy of her love.