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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 70
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Cecil, a Peer: A Sequel to Cecil, Or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb, Volume 3

Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1841 - 322 pages
...how sweet, how duteous, how full of promise. He remembered all he had trusted she would become, — Polite as all her life in courts had been, Yet good as she the world had never seen :— contemplating, with the indulgence of high enlightenment, the weaknesses...
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Ormington, or Cecil, a peer [signed N. or M.].

Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1842 - 964 pages
...how sweet, how duteous, how full of promise. He remembered all he had trusted she would become, — Polite as all her life in courts had been, Yet good as she the world had never seen : — contemplating, with the indulgence of high enlightenment, the weaknesses...
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Cecil, a Peer: A Sequel to Cecil, Or The Adventures of a Coxcomb, Volume 2

Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1842 - 214 pages
...how sweet, how duteous, how full of promise. He remembered all he had trusted she would become, — Polite as all her life in courts had been, Yet good as she the world had never seen : — contemplating, with the indulgence of high enlightenment, the weakness...
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The Drawing-room magazine: or, Ladies book of fancy needlework and choice ...

1848 - 650 pages
...HARRIET LA FARGUB. VERSES, MAKING PART OF AN EPITAPH, US' I«N LADY. BT GEORGE I, o K Ii LYTTLETON. MADE to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Though meek, magnanimous ; though witty, wise ; Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as she the world had never seen ; The...
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Temptation and atonement, and other tales

Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1847 - 372 pages
...auspicious.— Her dress, though simple in form and chaste in colour, was of rich materials ; her nature— Polite as all her life in courts had been, Yet good, as she the world had never seen. Though a dear lover of order, she was indulgent to the little irregularities...
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Memoirs and Papers of Sir Andrew Mitchell, K. B.: Envoy ..., Volume 2

Andrew Bisset - 1850 - 544 pages
...designed. Made to engage all hearts, to charm all eyes; Tho' meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wise ;— Polite, as all her life in Courts had been ; Yet good, as she the world had never seen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentlest female tenderness combined...
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First Impressions of England and Its People

Hugh Miller - 1851 - 438 pages
...poets of the present than of the past century, I give it as transcribed from the marble : — " Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes, Though meek, magnanimous, — though witty, wise ; Polite as she in courts had ever been, Yet good as she the world had never seen ; The noble...
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The Illustrated Magazine of Art

1853 - 444 pages
...a character ; happy, thrice happy, the husband who can apply it to the partner of his life ! " Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes, ' Though meek, magnanimous, though witty, wise ; Polite, as all her life in courts had been, Yet good, as she the world had never seen ; The...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1856 - 344 pages
...from the lines of the poet. According to the epitaph in- ( scribed upon her monument, she was Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes ; Though meek, magnanimous; though witty, wise: Polite as she in courts Lad ever been, Yet good as she the- world had never seen ; The noble...
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First Impressions of England and Its People

Hugh Miller - 1856 - 454 pages
...poets of the present than of the past century, I give it as transcribed from the marble: — " Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes, Though meek, magnanimous, — though witty, wise ; Polite as she in courts had ever been, Yet good as she the world had never seen ; . The noble...
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