A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A f…

Her every tone is music's own, Like those of morning birds, And something more than melody Dwells ever in her words.

Look out upon the stars, my love, And shame them with thine eyes.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre, the source work from which most of these quotations are taken. This is a newly edited and updated version f…

The 'Laforgue edition' (1826-1838), heavily rewritten and censored:

E o abade pancudo que a tardinha, a varanda, palita o dente furado saboreando o seu cafe com um ar paterno, traz dentro em si os indistintos restos dum Torquem…