Augusta Fitzherbert; or, Anecdotes of real characters, letters, by the author of The castle of Mowbray, &c, Volume 1

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Page 102 - TIRED nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles, the wretched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Page 155 - ... fymptom of youth ; and raifes fufpicions of their being prone to low gratifications, or deftined to drudge in the more vulgar and illiberal purfuits of life.
Page 32 - How oft', when prefs'd to marriage, have I faid, Curfe on all laws but thofe which love has made? Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings; and in a moment flies.
Page 150 - That blifs which only centers in the mind : Why have I ftray'd from pleafure and repofe, To feek a good each government beftows ? In every government, though terrors reign...

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