“Another soft and scented page,
Fill’d with more honied words!
What motives to a pilgrimage
A shrine like mine affords!
I know, before I break the seal,
The words that I shall find:”
Belinda, or The Love Letter
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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“I can find no words for what I feel.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Journal Intime (1882), Quotes used in the Introduction by Ward
Context: I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.
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Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.”
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