PenruddockH. Colburn, 1839 |
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... Hope , see Fear , See Expectation fly ; And Disappointment in the rear , That blasts the promis'd joy . " Swift , in his disgust , took refuge in his Vive la Bagatelle ; I in the Horation maxim I have recom- mended . I trust that I ...
... Hope , see Fear , See Expectation fly ; And Disappointment in the rear , That blasts the promis'd joy . " Swift , in his disgust , took refuge in his Vive la Bagatelle ; I in the Horation maxim I have recom- mended . I trust that I ...
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... hope they will make you like this letter better than my last . Adieu ! Not the least subject for the nil admi- rari , is my still continuing to esteem such a strange medley of practical sense and theoretical nonsense as you . I trust I ...
... hope they will make you like this letter better than my last . Adieu ! Not the least subject for the nil admi- rari , is my still continuing to esteem such a strange medley of practical sense and theoretical nonsense as you . I trust I ...
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... hope you do not praise ironically , for they are quite as good as any we have here , whether at the Rotunda , Crown and Anchor , or White Conduit ' House , M.P.'s included . Don't shew me up , however , for saying so , or I shall never ...
... hope you do not praise ironically , for they are quite as good as any we have here , whether at the Rotunda , Crown and Anchor , or White Conduit ' House , M.P.'s included . Don't shew me up , however , for saying so , or I shall never ...
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... , and he the only lord of the soil , he would not only believe them , but act as if he did . " " Yet , with all my devotion to the nil admirari , " said I , " I should hope there were some OR , THE HIGH - MINDED . 59.
... , and he the only lord of the soil , he would not only believe them , but act as if he did . " " Yet , with all my devotion to the nil admirari , " said I , " I should hope there were some OR , THE HIGH - MINDED . 59.
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Robert Plumer Ward. said I , " I should hope there were some few who were exceptions to these specimens of the mutable , rank - scented many . ' " In the instance before us , " returned Oldacre , " I know some two or three ; one of them ...
Robert Plumer Ward. said I , " I should hope there were some few who were exceptions to these specimens of the mutable , rank - scented many . ' " In the instance before us , " returned Oldacre , " I know some two or three ; one of them ...
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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!