Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent British Poets, Nide 6J. Sharpe, 1810 |
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... brave examples of virtue cele- brated by it , she proposeth to her imitation . She is not vain in the history of her gay kindred or acquaintance ; since virtue is often tenant to a cottage , and familiarity with greatness ( if worth be ...
... brave examples of virtue cele- brated by it , she proposeth to her imitation . She is not vain in the history of her gay kindred or acquaintance ; since virtue is often tenant to a cottage , and familiarity with greatness ( if worth be ...
Sivu 81
... brave man , however , had but a very short respite , and was obliged to suffer the ignominy of going out of the world in a vulgar way , by a halter . The enemies of play will perhaps consider those gentlemen , who boldly stake their ...
... brave man , however , had but a very short respite , and was obliged to suffer the ignominy of going out of the world in a vulgar way , by a halter . The enemies of play will perhaps consider those gentlemen , who boldly stake their ...
Sivu 88
... brave the gallows when they cannot es- cape it ; or pay their money with a peevish anxi- ety , and endeavour at once to spend idly , and to save meanly ; having neither firmness to deny their passions , nor courage to gratify them ...
... brave the gallows when they cannot es- cape it ; or pay their money with a peevish anxi- ety , and endeavour at once to spend idly , and to save meanly ; having neither firmness to deny their passions , nor courage to gratify them ...
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BOOK XI | 1 |
Marriage compared with single Life Bishop Taylor | 10 |
The same subject | 16 |
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affections agreeable beauty better cern cheerfulness common consider conversation Coriolanus Crito danger death debt desire doth endeavour enemy evil father faults fear folly fool fortune gamester give hand happiness hath hear heart Heaven honest honour human humour keep kind king labour laudanum laws learning less liberty lies long live look looking-glass lords spiritual man's mankind marriage master men's mind ministers of religion mother nature nerally never noble observed pain passions peace perhaps persons pleasing pleasure Poor Richard says praise prosperity racter reason religion revenge rich Rome Scythian seldom sorrow soul speak spirit tell temper tender thee thing thou thought tion true truth vanity Veturia vice virtue virtuous Volsci Volscian Volumnia wife wine wisdom wise woman women word young youth