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... added per- haps to a little gratification of spleen , to observe the metamorphoses of time , in this once pretty , but arrogant and foolish person . " 66 Why her character , surely , " said I , " cannot be changed ? " " No ! but her ...
... added per- haps to a little gratification of spleen , to observe the metamorphoses of time , in this once pretty , but arrogant and foolish person . " 66 Why her character , surely , " said I , " cannot be changed ? " " No ! but her ...
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... added , " Audivére , Lyce , Dî , mea vota ; Dî Audivére , Lyce ; fis anus , et tamen Vis formosa videri . " * O , there is nothing like celibacy ( against your will ) , and dimples turning to wrinkles , to tame a woman , whether an ...
... added , " Audivére , Lyce , Dî , mea vota ; Dî Audivére , Lyce ; fis anus , et tamen Vis formosa videri . " * O , there is nothing like celibacy ( against your will ) , and dimples turning to wrinkles , to tame a woman , whether an ...
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... added , " said Oldacre , " that , from being left pennyless by his father , this misguided young man was taken by his uncle to his bosom , educated , provided for , and irrevocably made his heir . " Such is the morality of many of our ...
... added , " said Oldacre , " that , from being left pennyless by his father , this misguided young man was taken by his uncle to his bosom , educated , provided for , and irrevocably made his heir . " Such is the morality of many of our ...
Page 100
... added he , laughing , " you are going to take some such person for better , for worse , ' in Germany . No doubt , you will find some Frau Grafine that will equal Brathwayte's heroine ; if so , you cannot do better than form your idea of ...
... added he , laughing , " you are going to take some such person for better , for worse , ' in Germany . No doubt , you will find some Frau Grafine that will equal Brathwayte's heroine ; if so , you cannot do better than form your idea of ...
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... added to the most essen- tial services , the result of the most brilliant courage , patience , and consummate ability conjoined , cannot exempt a man from the most atrocious attacks upon both his person and character , by men not merely ...
... added to the most essen- tial services , the result of the most brilliant courage , patience , and consummate ability conjoined , cannot exempt a man from the most atrocious attacks upon both his person and character , by men not merely ...
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Page 74 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. force should be right ; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 84 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Page 270 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 3 - Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, solaque quae possit facere et servare beatum.
Page 49 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Page 73 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 54 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 210 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Page 49 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 74 - Sans check to good and bad : but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure!