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QUENTIN DEPARTS. "Would ye my death? Can that avail you? Or life? what life will ye to give? For this existence, grief-embittered, Doth hourly die, yet dying live. My sorrows, if ye fai…
ANXIOUS FRIENDS. "Oh, Leolyn, be obstinately just; Indulge no passion and deceive no trust. Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther, shall my passion stray; The first crime pa…
THE PARAGRAPH. "My kindred are dead, my love is fled; Courage, my heart, thou canst love no more; Pale is my cheek, my body is weak; Courage, my heart, 'twill soon be o'er. Di…
THE WAYSIDE CROSS AND WELL. "If in this exile dark and drear, To which my fate has doomed me now, I should unnoticed die—what tear, What tear of sympathy will flow? For I have sough…
THE MULETEERS. "Riper occasions will thy valour claim, Danger comes on; Typhœus-like it comes, Whose fabled stature every hour increased." A…
GIL LLANO. "Still, however fate may thwart me, Unconvinced, unchanged I live; From those dreams I cannot part me, That such dear delusions give; Hoping yet in countless years, One b…
DANGER IN THE PATH. "Beloved of glory, Spain! hail, holy ground! All hail! thou chosen scene of deeds renown'd, By warriors wrought in each progressive age, Who struggled to repel th'…
THE CHASSEUR Ã � CHEVAL. "The soldier little quiet finds, But is exposed to stormy winds, And weather."—L'ESTRANGE. After proceeding a little way, the sound of voices, as if engage…
EUGENE DE RIBEAUPIERRE. "Ford. Well, he's not here I seek for. Page. No, nor nowhere else but in your brain. Ford. Help me to search my house this one time: if I find not what …
THE GALIOTE OF ST. CLOUD. "To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool, thoug…
