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Date: 1786
"Oh thou! to save whose peace I now depart, / Will thy soft mind, thy poor lost friend deplore, / When worms shall feed on this devoted heart, / Where even thy image shall be found no more / Yet may thy pity mingle not with pain, / For then thy hapless lover--dies in vain!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1786
"'Tis thy pure spirit warms my Anna's mind. / Beams thro' the pensive softness of her form, / And holds its altar--on her spotless heart!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1786
"But when thy envied sanction crowns my lays, / A ray of pleasure lights my languid mind, / For well I know the value of thy praise."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1786
"Strengthen'd by thee, this heart shall cease to melt / O'er ills that poor humanity must bear; / Nor friends estrang'd, or ties dissolv'd be felt / To leave regret, and fruitless anguish there."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1786
"Her pencil sickening Fancy throws away, / And weary Hope reclines upon the tomb."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Painful indeed were the thoughts that now crouded on her mind."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"Insensible as such a man must be supposed to the charms of the elegant and self-cultivated mind of Emmeline, her personal beauty had made a deep impression on his heart; and he had formed a design of marrying her, before the death of Mrs. Carey, to whom he had once or twice mentioned something l...
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Date: 1788
"Impressed with these ideas, he paid his court most assiduously to the housekeeper, who put down all his compliments to the account of her own attractions; and was extremely pleased with her conquest; which she exhausted all her eloquence and all her wardrobe to secure."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"The little she read, however, filled her heart with the most painful sensations and her eyes with tears."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"And as she passed by the village church, which had been formerly the chapel of the monastery, and joined the castle walls, she turned her eyes, filled with tears, towards the spot where the remains of Mrs. Carey were deposited, and sighed deeply; a thousand tender and painful recollections croud...
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
