How the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun! How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel By the wizard sun! How the old steeples hand the scarlet, Till the ball is full, -- Have I the lip of the flamingo That I dare to tell? Then, how the fire ebbs like billows, Touching all the grass With a departing, sapphire feature, As if a duchess pass! How a small dusk crawls on the village Till the houses blot; And the odd flambeaux no men carry Glimmer on the spot! Now it is night in nest and kennel, And where was the wood, Just a dome of abyss is nodding Into solitude! -- These are the visions baffled Guido; Titian never told; Domenichino dropped the pencil, Powerless to unfold.
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If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
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She is a lady short on looks, absolutely deprived of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster . . . very greedy when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else.
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That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call
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Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
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Duchess of York. Good madam, be not angry with the child. Queen Elizabeth. Pitchers have ears.
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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
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So you, O nameless Duchess who die young, Meet death somewhat lovingly...
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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
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Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
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Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
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