Cecil's Tryst: A Novel

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Tauchnitz, 1872 - 399 páginas

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Página 165 - What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 14 - Ha ! why? Do you think I fable with you? I assure you, He that has once the flower of the sun, The perfect ruby, which we call elixir, Not only can do that, but by its virtue Can confer honour, love, respect, long life; Give safety, valour, yea, and victory, To whom he will. In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of fourscore a child.
Página 174 - The treasures of the deep are not so precious As are the conceal'd comforts of a man Locked up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings, when I come but near the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. The violet bed's not sweeter.
Página 173 - A man the monarch of his mind. Now taste and try this temper, sirs, Mood it and brood it in your breast ; Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs, That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be deft, and debonair, I am content, I do not care.
Página 369 - Jennie of 'The Prince's,'" Author of: vide BH Buxton. Jerome, K. Jerome. The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow iv.
Página 175 - That remedy Must be a winding-sheet, a fold of lead, And some untrod-on corner in the earth.
Página 370 - Amy Herbert 2 v. Ursula 2 v. A Glimpse of the World 2 v. The Journal of a Home Life 2 v. After Life 2 v- The Experience of Life 2 v.
Página 172 - With whom I feast I do not fawn, Nor if the folks should flout me, faint ; If wonted welcome be withdrawn, I cook no kind of a complaint : With none disposed to disagree, But like them best who best like me.
Página 172 - With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet ; To seek what ancient sages sought, Physic and food in sour and sweet : To take what passes in good part, And keep the hiccups from the heart.