PenruddockH. Colburn, 1839 |
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... fact , lived so long out of the world , or at least the London world , yet without adopting mere provincial manners , that he seems to have formed himself on a model of his own . Moreover , he is a reading man , as far as the literature ...
... fact , lived so long out of the world , or at least the London world , yet without adopting mere provincial manners , that he seems to have formed himself on a model of his own . Moreover , he is a reading man , as far as the literature ...
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... This rival ( whether because he was so , or looked rather further into the mill - stone , ) desired them , before they adopted the argument , to be sure of VOL . II . " their fact , " which , it appears , OR , THE HIGH - MINDED . 25.
... This rival ( whether because he was so , or looked rather further into the mill - stone , ) desired them , before they adopted the argument , to be sure of VOL . II . " their fact , " which , it appears , OR , THE HIGH - MINDED . 25.
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Robert Plumer Ward. " their fact , " which , it appears , was a favourite , and sometimes to others , an unpalatable phrase of his . He said , though the king might not dismiss military officers for parliamentary votes , because such ...
Robert Plumer Ward. " their fact , " which , it appears , was a favourite , and sometimes to others , an unpalatable phrase of his . He said , though the king might not dismiss military officers for parliamentary votes , because such ...
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... fact of growing old , and the consequent loss of beauty , to be sure . " Lady Wil- helmina , from sixteen to twenty ( aye , I believe to six - and - twenty , for she was even then tolerably fraiche , ) might have given and did give ...
... fact of growing old , and the consequent loss of beauty , to be sure . " Lady Wil- helmina , from sixteen to twenty ( aye , I believe to six - and - twenty , for she was even then tolerably fraiche , ) might have given and did give ...
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... fact , he had brooded over them ( probably from hereditary zeal ) from his youth till now . Yet he was no bigot ; for , with his ances- tors , he said that the first part of Charles's reign was marked with most illegal oppressions ; and ...
... fact , he had brooded over them ( probably from hereditary zeal ) from his youth till now . Yet he was no bigot ; for , with his ances- tors , he said that the first part of Charles's reign was marked with most illegal oppressions ; and ...
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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!