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" For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 32
edited by - 1856
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Annual Register, Volume 53

Edmund Burke - 1825 - 854 pages
...required no personal favours for its support ; for, as Butler in a serious strain observes, . . ...... Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose...the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. As the fall and restoration of monarchy were intimately connected with those of the established religion,...
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Noctes Atticae: Or, Reveries in a Garret; Containing Short, and Chiefly ...

Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...admiration of the man, Hiefollowing couplets, allusive to himself and bis feelings, as a true subject: For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose...game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be net shone upon. Nouvelle Heloise, Sfc. JJ Rousseau, like other madmen, had many lucid intervals and...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1

Horace Smith - 1825 - 374 pages
...of the day. However, we need not be at a loss ; this Helianthus, or annual sunflower, is not only " True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon ;" but enables us to form some estimate of the hour, even when the great luminary is invisible —...
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Worcester Field: Or, The Cavalier. A Poem in Four Cantos. With Historical Notes

Agnes Strickland - 1826 - 182 pages
...CANTOS, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES. BY AGNES STRICKLAND. But Loyalty is -till the same, Whether it win or Jose the game; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. * BUTLER. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. CONTENTS, Page...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1826 - 444 pages
...receive, we should still have the consolation of being like Butler's steady and generous royalist, True as the dial to the sun. Although it be not shone upon. We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Nowell's, where was a very agreeable company ; and we...
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Entertaining and instructive rambles

Entertaining and instructive rambles - 1827 - 178 pages
...of the day. However, we need not be at a loss : this helianthus, or annual sun-flower, is not only True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon ; but enables us to form some estimate of the hour, even when the great lu45 minary is invisible :...
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Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think, Volume 1

Charles Caleb Colton - 1828 - 336 pages
...described by Butter, in a manner which proves that sublimity and wit are not invariably disconnected : " For loyalty is still the same,, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although.it be not shined upon." Therefore, when men of admitted talentand of high consideration, come...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 13

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...and pure. Milton. Abdiel faithful found Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyally he kept. Id, For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose...the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. Hudibras. There l.aodamia with Evadne moves. Unhappy both, but loyal in their loves. Drydeu. Lvyul...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts

Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...a Hoottirkin. 151. At the building of the Tower of Babel, when God made the confusion of languages. For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; True as the dial to the sun, 175 Although it be not shrn d upon. But when these brethren in evil, Their adversaries, and the devil,...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 2

1829 - 442 pages
...so certainly laid the foundation of a better system. FRIENDS. Hudibras says, a sincere friend is — True as the dial to the sun. Although it be not shone upon ' * And another observer of human frailty adds, — " A. false friend Is like the shadow on a sun....
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