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Page 51
... Colton . Alas ! the love of women , it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown , And if ' tis lost , life has no more to bring To them , but mockeries of the past alone . Byron . Lovers ...
... Colton . Alas ! the love of women , it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown , And if ' tis lost , life has no more to bring To them , but mockeries of the past alone . Byron . Lovers ...
Page 69
... Colton . Oh , let me live for ever on those lips ; The nectar of the gods to these is tasteless . Dryden . Take my esteem , if you on that can live , For frankly , sir , ' tis all I have to give . Dryden . Yet , it is love , if thoughts ...
... Colton . Oh , let me live for ever on those lips ; The nectar of the gods to these is tasteless . Dryden . Take my esteem , if you on that can live , For frankly , sir , ' tis all I have to give . Dryden . Yet , it is love , if thoughts ...
Page 84
... I were married . Shakspeare . Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner . Colton . He that would have fine guests , let him have a fine wife . Ben Jonson . He that marries a wife and he that goes to MARRIAGE .
... I were married . Shakspeare . Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner . Colton . He that would have fine guests , let him have a fine wife . Ben Jonson . He that marries a wife and he that goes to MARRIAGE .
Page 115
... Colton . I had observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll , while some scrub rogue is made the fine gen- tleman or hero . Thus it is in the farce of life - wise men spend their time in mirth , ' tis only fools who are ...
... Colton . I had observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll , while some scrub rogue is made the fine gen- tleman or hero . Thus it is in the farce of life - wise men spend their time in mirth , ' tis only fools who are ...
Page 117
... Colton . Critics are cut - throat bandits in the paths of fame . Burns . Before men made us citizens , great Nature made us men . Lowell . There are points from which we can command our life , When the soul sweeps the future like a ...
... Colton . Critics are cut - throat bandits in the paths of fame . Burns . Before men made us citizens , great Nature made us men . Lowell . There are points from which we can command our life , When the soul sweeps the future like a ...
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