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Page 47
... meet it smilingly , as it were half - way . Come , a handsome sacrifice ! See how light he makes of it ! enemy . Strain not courtesies with a noble Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend ...
... meet it smilingly , as it were half - way . Come , a handsome sacrifice ! See how light he makes of it ! enemy . Strain not courtesies with a noble Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend ...
Page 62
... meet , And render e'en Disaster sweet : And though the Princess turn her back , Let us but line ourselves with sack , We better shall by far hold out , Till the next Year she face about . How say you , reader - do not these verses smack ...
... meet , And render e'en Disaster sweet : And though the Princess turn her back , Let us but line ourselves with sack , We better shall by far hold out , Till the next Year she face about . How say you , reader - do not these verses smack ...
Page 83
... meets me in the forest to - day , shall meet with no wise - acre , I can tell him . Stultus sum . Translate me that , and take the meaning of it to yourself for your pains . What , man , we have four quarters of the globe on our side ...
... meets me in the forest to - day , shall meet with no wise - acre , I can tell him . Stultus sum . Translate me that , and take the meaning of it to yourself for your pains . What , man , we have four quarters of the globe on our side ...
Page 107
... meet you on the square . He wants a point given him , like an indifferent whist - player . He is so used to teach- ing , that he wants to be teaching you . One of these professors , upon my complaining that these little sketches of mine ...
... meet you on the square . He wants a point given him , like an indifferent whist - player . He is so used to teach- ing , that he wants to be teaching you . One of these professors , upon my complaining that these little sketches of mine ...
Page 113
... meets nobody half - way . E. B. meditated how he could repay this young maiden for many a favour which she had done him unknown ; for when a kindly face greets us , though but passing by , and never knows us again , nor we it , we ...
... meets nobody half - way . E. B. meditated how he could repay this young maiden for many a favour which she had done him unknown ; for when a kindly face greets us , though but passing by , and never knows us again , nor we it , we ...
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