A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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... hope ; and welcome love , and joy , and praise . I shall now have my harvest without ploughing or sowing : my joy without a preacher or a promise : even all from the face of God Himself . Whatever mixture is in the streams , there is ...
... hope ; and welcome love , and joy , and praise . I shall now have my harvest without ploughing or sowing : my joy without a preacher or a promise : even all from the face of God Himself . Whatever mixture is in the streams , there is ...
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... hope to have all things answer our own expec- tation ; to have a continuance of good success and fortunes . Fortuna nunquam perpetuò est bona . And as Minutius Felix , the Roman Consul , told that insulting Coriolanus , drunk with his ...
... hope to have all things answer our own expec- tation ; to have a continuance of good success and fortunes . Fortuna nunquam perpetuò est bona . And as Minutius Felix , the Roman Consul , told that insulting Coriolanus , drunk with his ...
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... hope for immor- time hath no wings unto it . But the tality , or any patent from oblivion , in most tedious being is that which can un - preservations below the moon : men have wish itself , content to be nothing , or never to have been ...
... hope for immor- time hath no wings unto it . But the tality , or any patent from oblivion , in most tedious being is that which can un - preservations below the moon : men have wish itself , content to be nothing , or never to have been ...
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... hope for , all the vanities of this world should not intreat a moment's breath for me ; could the devil work my belief to imagine I could never die , I would not outlive that very thought ; I have so abject a conceit of this common way ...
... hope for , all the vanities of this world should not intreat a moment's breath for me ; could the devil work my belief to imagine I could never die , I would not outlive that very thought ; I have so abject a conceit of this common way ...
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... hope , and desire , and such like passions , whereby we feel all things else , and feel ourselves ? Now , whatever fancies men may have about our notions and ideas , that they may come into our minds from without , and be formed by ...
... hope , and desire , and such like passions , whereby we feel all things else , and feel ourselves ? Now , whatever fancies men may have about our notions and ideas , that they may come into our minds from without , and be formed by ...
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admiration affections appear beautiful body called character Cloth common creature death delight Dendermond earth enemy England English eyes father Fcap fear feel fortune France French revolution G. H. LEWES genius Giaour give glory ground hand happy hath heard heart heaven honour hope human Ivanhoe JAMES WATT John Lesley Khipil kind king labour lady land language learning liberty light live look Lord Lord Wilmot man's mankind manner Max Müller ment mind nation nature ness never night noble observed pass passions person pleasure poet poetry poor present prince racter reason religion Sandy Smith Scotland seemed sense soul speak spirit tell thee things thou thought tion trees truth uncle Toby uncon Vathek Virgil virtue walk whole words wwwm Xenophon young