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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Sivu 33
... present it is crusted over with plaster of Paris . In those battered belles who still aim at conquest , this practice is in some sort excusable ; but it is surely as ridiculous in a young lady to give up beauty for paint , as it would ...
... present it is crusted over with plaster of Paris . In those battered belles who still aim at conquest , this practice is in some sort excusable ; but it is surely as ridiculous in a young lady to give up beauty for paint , as it would ...
Sivu 44
... present at all the adventures to which human life is exposed , to ad- minister slumber to thy eye - lids in the agonies of a fever , to cover thy beloved face in the day of battle , to be with thee a guardian angel , incapable of wound ...
... present at all the adventures to which human life is exposed , to ad- minister slumber to thy eye - lids in the agonies of a fever , to cover thy beloved face in the day of battle , to be with thee a guardian angel , incapable of wound ...
Sivu 192
... present age is in laying taxes on the next : ' Future ages shall talk of this : this shall be famous to all poste- rity whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things , as ours are now . The cameleon , who is said ...
... present age is in laying taxes on the next : ' Future ages shall talk of this : this shall be famous to all poste- rity whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things , as ours are now . The cameleon , who is said ...
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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