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... once existed , there can be no doubt ; reference having been made to it by several Persian writers . It is equally certain , that one copy , at least , of the Desatir must have been extant in the year 1624 ; an author of that period ...
... once existed , there can be no doubt ; reference having been made to it by several Persian writers . It is equally certain , that one copy , at least , of the Desatir must have been extant in the year 1624 ; an author of that period ...
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... once more buried in his original obscurity , -his nation only viewed him as an equal ; and even the liberal grant of the state failed of giving him that superior consideration among them , which his civilization had procured for him ...
... once more buried in his original obscurity , -his nation only viewed him as an equal ; and even the liberal grant of the state failed of giving him that superior consideration among them , which his civilization had procured for him ...
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... once told Rochester , that if he could by any means divest himself of one half of his wit , the other half would make him the most agreeable man in the world . This observation of the count's did not strike me much when I heard it , but ...
... once told Rochester , that if he could by any means divest himself of one half of his wit , the other half would make him the most agreeable man in the world . This observation of the count's did not strike me much when I heard it , but ...
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... once : square him a tomb , may say His craft exceeded far a dawber's way , - Then write upon , " He could no longer tarry , But was returned ' gain unto the quarry . ' THE FAIR THIEF . - BY THE EARL OF EGREMONT . THE following beautiful ...
... once : square him a tomb , may say His craft exceeded far a dawber's way , - Then write upon , " He could no longer tarry , But was returned ' gain unto the quarry . ' THE FAIR THIEF . - BY THE EARL OF EGREMONT . THE following beautiful ...
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... once or twice , not with malice , nor to finde a little fault , but with judgement to like what is good . 66 Truly , I cannot believe so unworthily of any scholar , ( honouring them so much as we both do ) that they should en- vie this ...
... once or twice , not with malice , nor to finde a little fault , but with judgement to like what is good . 66 Truly , I cannot believe so unworthily of any scholar , ( honouring them so much as we both do ) that they should en- vie this ...
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Adderbury anagram appears baconne bishop body British Museum called Charles Christian church copy Cordeilla Countess of Rochester court curious daughter dear death devil divine duke earl Earl of Litchfield England English epigram fair father fortune foul papers frae France French gentleman give grace Gruoch half sheets hand happy hath haue heart heaven Henry honour husband isle of Britain James John Kenneth IV king king's knights lady land letter live Llyr London lord Lord Wilmot Macbeth majesty mind never Oliver Cromwell papers parliament person PHILIP MASSINGER poem poet poor pray present prince printed queen received reign Rochester Rome Scotland Selcraige sent servant shal sheets in folio shew soul thee things thou thought translation truth unto Voltaire Whichenour wife wine Witcham words write written yame
Popular passages
Page 339 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 398 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 14 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
Page 200 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 395 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 87 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 68 - The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall, At every stroke the oars did tears let fall ; More clung about the barge ; fish under water Wept out their eyes ofpearle, and swome blind after.
Page 14 - I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.
Page 291 - ... would become, without the belief of a God^ how palsied would be human benevolence, were there not the sense...
Page 291 - ... to uprightness and the public good ; that an oath is unheard in heaven ; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator...