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... allow himself clothes and board- wages : Unciatim vix de demenso suo , 16 Suum defraudans genium , comparsit miser ; He defrauds not only other men , but his own genius ; he cheats himself for money . But the servile and miserable ...
... allow himself clothes and board- wages : Unciatim vix de demenso suo , 16 Suum defraudans genium , comparsit miser ; He defrauds not only other men , but his own genius ; he cheats himself for money . But the servile and miserable ...
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... allowed us . If you ask me , in what condition of life I think the most allowed ; I should pitch upon that sort of people , whom King James was wont to call the happiest of our nation , the men placed in the country by their fortune ...
... allowed us . If you ask me , in what condition of life I think the most allowed ; I should pitch upon that sort of people , whom King James was wont to call the happiest of our nation , the men placed in the country by their fortune ...
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... allow : But let him peace and freedom never see ; Let him not love this life , who loves not me . MARTIAL , LIB . II . EP . LIII . 66 Vis fieri liber ? " & c . OULD you be free ? ' Tis your chief wish , you say : Come on ; I'll shew ...
... allow : But let him peace and freedom never see ; Let him not love this life , who loves not me . MARTIAL , LIB . II . EP . LIII . 66 Vis fieri liber ? " & c . OULD you be free ? ' Tis your chief wish , you say : Come on ; I'll shew ...
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... allows but to a very few the op- portunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy , the best mixture of human affairs that we can make , are the employments of a country life . It is , as Columella calls it , " Res ...
... allows but to a very few the op- portunities or possibility of applying themselves wholly to philosophy , the best mixture of human affairs that we can make , are the employments of a country life . It is , as Columella calls it , " Res ...
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... allowed more probability of bringing it into execution . What I have further to say of the country life , shall be borrowed from the poets , who were always the most faithful and affectionate friends to it . Poetry was born among the ...
... allowed more probability of bringing it into execution . What I have further to say of the country life , shall be borrowed from the poets , who were always the most faithful and affectionate friends to it . Poetry was born among the ...
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Page 122 - The Wish Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does, of all meats, the soonest cloy; And they, methinks, deserve my pity Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah yet, ere I descend to th...
Page 119 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave.
Page 118 - T is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ;* it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Page 121 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.
Page 7 - The books discussed in this volume are no less valuable than they are rare, and the compiler is entitled to the gratitude of the public. Observer. The Silent Hour : Essays, Original and Selected. By the Author of "The Gentle Life.
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Page 77 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great; Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.