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... virtue , is a person ( alluding to Addison ) who is too fondly my friend ever to own them ; but I should little deserve to be his , if I usurped the glory of them . " - Who does not grieve , knowing that divisions afterwards embittered ...
... virtue , is a person ( alluding to Addison ) who is too fondly my friend ever to own them ; but I should little deserve to be his , if I usurped the glory of them . " - Who does not grieve , knowing that divisions afterwards embittered ...
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... virtue itself . She had touched the infant Hercules , Samuel Johnson , in the Lent of 1712 , then but thirty months old , an incident which he very well remembered . The " Journal des Sçavans " appears 1665 , on this day , under the ...
... virtue itself . She had touched the infant Hercules , Samuel Johnson , in the Lent of 1712 , then but thirty months old , an incident which he very well remembered . The " Journal des Sçavans " appears 1665 , on this day , under the ...
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... virtues to those of " the majestic Lord , that broke the bonds of Rome , " 1540 . There are three powerful ones in the world : a lord , an idiot , and nothing .. The Triads . The simple energy of Truth needs no ambiguous interpreters ...
... virtues to those of " the majestic Lord , that broke the bonds of Rome , " 1540 . There are three powerful ones in the world : a lord , an idiot , and nothing .. The Triads . The simple energy of Truth needs no ambiguous interpreters ...
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... virtues . The treaty of Constantinople is signed , by which the sovereignty of the Crimea was ceded to Russia , 1784. Upon the same day , 1792 , a final treaty of peace was concluded by Catharine with the Ottoman Porte , fixing the ...
... virtues . The treaty of Constantinople is signed , by which the sovereignty of the Crimea was ceded to Russia , 1784. Upon the same day , 1792 , a final treaty of peace was concluded by Catharine with the Ottoman Porte , fixing the ...
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... Virtue through such false optics as unfold No splendour , ' less from equal orbs they shine ? What Heaven made free , ambitious men confine . - Chamberlayne . St. Salvius ( or Sauve ) , Bp . of matters , not even with such as Amiens ...
... Virtue through such false optics as unfold No splendour , ' less from equal orbs they shine ? What Heaven made free , ambitious men confine . - Chamberlayne . St. Salvius ( or Sauve ) , Bp . of matters , not even with such as Amiens ...
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Page xx - The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page xv - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page iv - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page ii - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page xxi - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least...
Page ix - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page xiv - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since have pointed unto, your Grace being not ignorant of my suspicion therein. But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise...