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Isabella Key Quotations Flashcards

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‘Fair Isabel…’

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‘Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!’

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‘Lorenzo, a…’

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‘Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love’s eye!’

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‘They could…’

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‘They could not’ x3

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‘With every morn their…’

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‘With every morn their love grew tenderer, with every eve deeper and tender still;’

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‘But her full shape…’

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‘But her full shape would all his seeing fill;’

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‘from her chamber-window…’

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‘from her chamber-window we would catch

Her beauty father than the falcon spies;’

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‘A whole long month of…’

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‘A whole long month of May in this sad plight

Made their cheeks paler by the break of June:’

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‘Tom-morrow’

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‘Tom-morrow’ x2

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‘Until sweet Isabella’s…’

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‘Until sweet Isabella’s untouched cheek.’

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‘Fell sick within…’

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‘Fell sick within the rose’s just domain’

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‘Fell thin as a young…’

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‘Fell thin as a young mother’s, who doth seek

By every lull to cool her infant’s pain:’

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‘His heart beat…’

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‘His heart beat awfully against his side;’

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‘he inwardly did…’

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‘he inwardly did pray

For power to speak;’

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‘the ruddy tide stifled his voice,…’

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‘the ruddy tide stifled his voice, and puls’d resolve away- Fever’d his high conceit of such a bride’

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‘Alas! When passion…’

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‘Alas! When passion is both meek and wild!’

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‘anguished a dreary…’

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‘anguished a dreary night of love and misery’

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‘lisped tenderly,…’

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‘lisped tenderly, “Lorenzo!” - here she ceas’d her timid quest’

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‘Believe’

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x3

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‘My soul is…’

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‘My soul is to its doom’

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‘I cannot live another night,…’

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‘I cannot live another night, and not my passion shrive.’

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‘his erewhile…’

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‘his erewhile timid lips grew bold’

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‘Grew, like a lusty…’

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‘Grew, like a lusty flower, in June’s caress.’

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touch

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‘wintry cold’ , ‘summer clime’ , ‘warmth’, ‘dewy’ , ‘caress’ , ‘zephyr’

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Taste

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‘taste the blossoms’ , ‘poesied’ , ‘lips’ , ‘delicious’ , ‘honey’d dart’

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Smell

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‘lusty flower’ , ‘roses’ , ‘fragrance’

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Sound

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‘ditty fair’ , ‘light steps’ , ‘bade the sun farewell’

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‘great…’

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‘great happiness’

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28
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‘Twin roses by…’

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‘Twin roses by the zephyr’

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‘Unknown of any,…’

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‘Unknown of any, free from whispering tale’

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‘Were they unhappy then?…’

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‘Were they unhappy then? - it cannot be -‘

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‘Theseus’…’

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‘Theseus’ spouse’

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‘Too many tears for…’

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‘Too many tears for lovers have been shed,’

33
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‘young…’

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‘young Lorenzo’

34
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‘Know there is richest…’

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‘Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.’

35
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‘With her two brothers this fair…’

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‘With her two brothers this fair lady dwelt, enriched from ancestral merchandise.’

36
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‘And many once proud-quivering…’

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‘And many once proud-quivering loins did melt in blood from stinging whip.’

37
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‘for them in death the seal…’

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‘for them in death the seal on the cold ice with piteous bark lay full of darts’

38
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‘Why were they…’

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‘Why were they proud?’ x5

39
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‘How was it these same…’

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‘How was it these same ledger-men could spy Fair Isabella in her downy nest?’

40
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‘Hot Egypt’s pest…

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‘Hot Egypt’s pest into their vision covetous and sly!’

41
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‘twas their plan to coax her…’

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‘twas their plan to coax her by degrees to some high noble and his olive-trees.’

42
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‘To make the youngster…’

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‘To make the youngster for his crime atone;’

43
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‘they resolved in some forest…’

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‘they resolved in some forest dim to kill Lorenzo, and there bury him.’

44
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‘Bow’d a fair greeting…’

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‘Bow’d a fair greeting to these serpents’ whine’

45
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‘he saw her…’

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‘he saw her features bright’

46
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‘I was in pain lest I should miss…’

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‘I was in pain lest I should miss to bid thee a good morrow:’

47
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‘the two brothers and…’

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‘the two brothers and their murder’d man rode past fair Florence’

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‘Sick and wan the brothers’…’

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‘Sick and wan the brothers’ faces in the ford did seem’

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‘Lorenzo’s flush…’

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‘Lorenzo’s flush with love’

50
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‘into a forest quiet…’

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‘into a forest quiet for the slaughter’

51
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‘There was Lorenzo slain…’

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‘There was Lorenzo slain and buried in’

52
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‘each richer by his…’

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‘each richer by his being a murderer’

53
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‘Poor Girl! put on…’

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‘Poor Girl! put on thy stifling widow’s weed’

54
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‘O…’

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‘O misery!’

55
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‘But Selfishness,…’

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‘But Selfishness, Love’s cousin’

56
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‘sweet Isabel by gradual…’

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‘sweet Isabel by gradual decay from beauty fell’

57
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‘it’

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58
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‘its eyes, though wild,…’

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‘its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright with love’

59
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‘Upon the skirts of human…’

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‘Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling Alone’

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‘that paleness warms…’

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‘that paleness warms my grave’

61
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‘thy paleness…’

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‘thy paleness makes me glad’

62
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‘sad…’

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‘sad Isabella’

63
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‘I thought the worst…’

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‘I thought the worst was simple misery’

64
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‘her heart felt pity to the…’

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‘her heart felt pity to the core at sight of such a dismal labouring’

65
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‘kernel of…’

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‘kernel of the grave’

66
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‘cut away no formless monster’s…’

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‘cut away no formless monster’s head, but one, whose gentleness did well accord with death, as life.’

67
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‘Pale Isabella…’

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‘Pale Isabella kiss’d it’

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‘she calm’d its wild…’

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‘she calm’d its wild hair with a golden comb’

69
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‘still she kiss’d…’

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‘still she kiss’d, and wept’

70
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‘o’er it set Sweet Basil…’

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‘o’er it set Sweet Basil, which her tears kept ever wet.’

71
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‘in peace hung over…’

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‘in peace hung over her sweet Basil evermore’

72
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‘so she ever fed it with thin…’

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‘so she ever fed it with thin tears, whence thick, and green, and beautiful it grew.’

73
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‘the thing was vile with green and….’

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‘the thing was vile with green and livid spot, and yet they knew it was Lorenzo’s face.’

74
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‘Away they went, with blood…’

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‘Away they went, with blood upon their heads, to banishment.’

75
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‘For Isabel, sweet Isabel, will die; will die…’

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‘For Isabel, sweet Isabel, will die; will die a death too lone and incomplete, now they have ta’en away her Basil sweet.’

76
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‘and so she pined, and…’

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‘and so she pined, and so she did forlorn, imploring for her Basil to the last.’

77
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‘a sad ditty…’

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‘a sad ditty of this story born’

78
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‘“O cruelty, to steal…’

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‘“O cruelty, to steal my Basil-pot away from me!’

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