Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... turn upon subjects of gallantry , satire , tenderness , politeness , and every thing , in short , that concerns life and the affairs of the world . Besides , the same advantage attends these as every other sort of poems , that we turn ...
... turn upon subjects of gallantry , satire , tenderness , politeness , and every thing , in short , that concerns life and the affairs of the world . Besides , the same advantage attends these as every other sort of poems , that we turn ...
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... turns us on her wheel : she raises and abases us at her pleasure , but her power is founded on our weakness . This is an old - rooted evil , but it is not incurable : there is nothing a firm and elevated mind cannot accomplish . The ...
... turns us on her wheel : she raises and abases us at her pleasure , but her power is founded on our weakness . This is an old - rooted evil , but it is not incurable : there is nothing a firm and elevated mind cannot accomplish . The ...
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... turning , there- fore , to the right hand they struck into another road , like that they had travelled through the day before . Soon after , Don Quixote discovered a man on horseback , who had on his head something which glit tered as ...
... turning , there- fore , to the right hand they struck into another road , like that they had travelled through the day before . Soon after , Don Quixote discovered a man on horseback , who had on his head something which glit tered as ...
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... turns into the great church , and salutes one of the pillars on one knee , worshipping that God which at home he cares not for , while his eye is fixed on some window or some passenger , and his heart knows not whither his lips go . He ...
... turns into the great church , and salutes one of the pillars on one knee , worshipping that God which at home he cares not for , while his eye is fixed on some window or some passenger , and his heart knows not whither his lips go . He ...
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... turn or hurt him , and accordingly approacheth nearer to it , or fleeth from it : whereas man , who in most events remembereth in what manner they were caused and begun , looketh for the cause and beginning of everything that ariseth ...
... turn or hurt him , and accordingly approacheth nearer to it , or fleeth from it : whereas man , who in most events remembereth in what manner they were caused and begun , looketh for the cause and beginning of everything that ariseth ...
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