Old-world Idylls and Other Verses |
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Why , Frank , you ' re quite delightful ,Hot as Othello , and as black of hue ; Borrow my fan . I would not look so frightful , If I were you ! FRANK . " It is the cause . I mean your chaperon is Bringing some well - curled juvenile .
Why , Frank , you ' re quite delightful ,Hot as Othello , and as black of hue ; Borrow my fan . I would not look so frightful , If I were you ! FRANK . " It is the cause . I mean your chaperon is Bringing some well - curled juvenile .
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Compel me not to long for your reply ; Suspense makes havoc with the mind - ( and muscles ) ; Winged Hope takes flight , ( which means that I must fly , Default of funds , to Paris or to Brussels ) ; I cannot wait !
Compel me not to long for your reply ; Suspense makes havoc with the mind - ( and muscles ) ; Winged Hope takes flight , ( which means that I must fly , Default of funds , to Paris or to Brussels ) ; I cannot wait !
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Alas , ' tis true distress exists , Though , let me add , our worthy Press Have no mean skill as colourists ; Speaking of colour , next your seat There hangs a sketch from Vernet's hand ; Some Moscow fancy , incomplete , Yet not ...
Alas , ' tis true distress exists , Though , let me add , our worthy Press Have no mean skill as colourists ; Speaking of colour , next your seat There hangs a sketch from Vernet's hand ; Some Moscow fancy , incomplete , Yet not ...
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... should have the foremost claims , At least these Continental wants Assume intelligible names ; While here with us Ah ! who could hope To verify the varied pleas , Or from his private means to cope With all our shrill necessities !
... should have the foremost claims , At least these Continental wants Assume intelligible names ; While here with us Ah ! who could hope To verify the varied pleas , Or from his private means to cope With all our shrill necessities !
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... Must have septennial changes ; This is a thing beyond control , And it were best upon the whole To try and find out whether We could not , by some means , arrange This not - to - be - avoided change So as to change together : But ...
... Must have septennial changes ; This is a thing beyond control , And it were best upon the whole To try and find out whether We could not , by some means , arrange This not - to - be - avoided change So as to change together : But ...
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Alley BABETTE BALLADE BEAU beauty Belle Marquise beside better bird blue Boucher bright Caliph clear comes dance dead dear Death DENISE door doubt dream eyes face fair fate feel feet flowers FRANK fresh garden Give gone grace gray green grew grow hair Half hand head hear heard heart hope John king kissed knew laughing LAWRENCE leaves less light lips lived look Maid mean morning Muse never night NINETTE NINON once pain pale pass pipe play Poet poor rest Rose round seek seemed shade sing smile song Spring stand stay stirred strange surely sweet tears thing thou thought to-day turned Twas voice wait watch weary young
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Bibliografinė informacija
| Pavadinimas | Old-world Idylls and Other Verses |
| Autorius | Austin Dobson |
| Leidimas | 4 |
| Leidėjas | Kegan Paul, Trench, 1884 |
| Originalas iš | Harvardo universitetas |
| Pakeista skaitmenine forma | 26 vasario 2008 |
| Ilgis | 252 psl. |
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