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Page 28
... NATURE . " - In what Eng- lish writer does this well - known phrase first appear ? I have found it in Quarles's ' Emblems , ' book ii . 13 : - The slender debt to nature ' s quickly paid , Discharg'd , perchance , with greater ease than ...
... NATURE . " - In what Eng- lish writer does this well - known phrase first appear ? I have found it in Quarles's ' Emblems , ' book ii . 13 : - The slender debt to nature ' s quickly paid , Discharg'd , perchance , with greater ease than ...
Page 58
... nature , and , like Liston , the comedian , who imagined himself to have been intended for tragedy , although essentially comic in the form and expression of his features ...... with a face that seemed made to create laughter , would ...
... nature , and , like Liston , the comedian , who imagined himself to have been intended for tragedy , although essentially comic in the form and expression of his features ...... with a face that seemed made to create laughter , would ...
Page 454
... nature too . JOHN T. PAGE . At the latter reference MR . TURNER says that Watts has been taxed with the perpetration of the phrase " ' tis their nature to . " Of course his verse is frequently so misquoted by newspaper writers and ...
... nature too . JOHN T. PAGE . At the latter reference MR . TURNER says that Watts has been taxed with the perpetration of the phrase " ' tis their nature to . " Of course his verse is frequently so misquoted by newspaper writers and ...
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