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... , Solaque quæ possit facere et servare beatum . ' Horat . Ep . vi . 12 . " Not to admire is all the art I know , To make men happy , and to keep them so . " - Creech . truth ; it accompanied me at college ; and it B 2 PENRUDDOCK; ...
... , Solaque quæ possit facere et servare beatum . ' Horat . Ep . vi . 12 . " Not to admire is all the art I know , To make men happy , and to keep them so . " - Creech . truth ; it accompanied me at college ; and it B 2 PENRUDDOCK; ...
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Robert Plumer Ward. truth ; it accompanied me at college ; and it has stuck by me in the world - that world in which I have seen so many wonders that nothing is now won- derful - that world which seems to be run mad , in revenge , I ...
Robert Plumer Ward. truth ; it accompanied me at college ; and it has stuck by me in the world - that world in which I have seen so many wonders that nothing is now won- derful - that world which seems to be run mad , in revenge , I ...
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... truth . You bully indeed not a little about the nymph Indifference , but like other nymphs , ( or , as you say of Swift's bagatelle , ) I am mistaken if she do not also prove a confounded jilt . If I were to talk seriously , I would set ...
... truth . You bully indeed not a little about the nymph Indifference , but like other nymphs , ( or , as you say of Swift's bagatelle , ) I am mistaken if she do not also prove a confounded jilt . If I were to talk seriously , I would set ...
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... truth is , you are so little capable of it , that seriously to combat it would be ludicrous . Your virtue at least does not stand in need of flight to preserve itself ; and if your refinement does , I would ask whether you have a right ...
... truth is , you are so little capable of it , that seriously to combat it would be ludicrous . Your virtue at least does not stand in need of flight to preserve itself ; and if your refinement does , I would ask whether you have a right ...
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... truth . 6 " But if you act upon principles ( even these prin- ciples ) , more fools , as well as cowards you , for sneaking into neutrality . Why mince the matter ? Why stop short ? Why not go the whole hog , ' and fly in your ...
... truth . 6 " But if you act upon principles ( even these prin- ciples ) , more fools , as well as cowards you , for sneaking into neutrality . Why mince the matter ? Why stop short ? Why not go the whole hog , ' and fly in your ...
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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!