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... fires my When that false guardian , with his crowded train , was , and ready to join in the destruction of the worthiest charac- ters , not yet so firmly established in the Emperour's favour , but that he needed the protection of a more ...
... fires my When that false guardian , with his crowded train , was , and ready to join in the destruction of the worthiest charac- ters , not yet so firmly established in the Emperour's favour , but that he needed the protection of a more ...
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... fire . Meanwhile , their patron sees his palace stored With every dainty earth and sea afford ; Stretch'd on the vacant couch , he rolls his eyes O'er many an orb of matchless form and size , VER . 192. Thence to the forum , & c ...
... fire . Meanwhile , their patron sees his palace stored With every dainty earth and sea afford ; Stretch'd on the vacant couch , he rolls his eyes O'er many an orb of matchless form and size , VER . 192. Thence to the forum , & c ...
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... fire . the commentators , and saved an ocean of precious ink , which has been wasted on them to little purpose : " Pone Tigellinum , tæda lucebis in illa 66 Qua stantes ardent , qui fixo gutture fumant , " Et latus mediam sulcus diducit ...
... fire . the commentators , and saved an ocean of precious ink , which has been wasted on them to little purpose : " Pone Tigellinum , tæda lucebis in illa 66 Qua stantes ardent , qui fixo gutture fumant , " Et latus mediam sulcus diducit ...
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... fire ; While he , whose crimes your daring lines arraign , More vicious , proves - you plough the sand in vain ! There is yet another meaning adopted by some of the learned , and which is produced by a gentleman in his remarks on ...
... fire ; While he , whose crimes your daring lines arraign , More vicious , proves - you plough the sand in vain ! There is yet another meaning adopted by some of the learned , and which is produced by a gentleman in his remarks on ...
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... family prejudices ; otherwise I should think she might have been still more gratified by being told that she was like Diana . That , trembling , darts contagious fire ; while those SATIRE II . JUVENAL . v . 123-134 . 47.
... family prejudices ; otherwise I should think she might have been still more gratified by being told that she was like Diana . That , trembling , darts contagious fire ; while those SATIRE II . JUVENAL . v . 123-134 . 47.
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Page 326 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 394 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 423 - If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry...
Page 20 - As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.
Page 230 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Page 229 - I, that spend half my nights and all my days Here, in a cell, to get a dark, pale face, To come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace Leave me ! There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 18 - tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, — Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd, — They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page xii - Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equation, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Page 207 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page xi - As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little regarded in the family, of which I sunk by degrees into the common drudge : this did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled.