The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 - English drama |
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... hold property in a negro ; but a question from the State , and deprived them of the means whether , in the nature of things , and consistently of subsistence , that every man who stops short with the rights of man , one man can make a ...
... hold property in a negro ; but a question from the State , and deprived them of the means whether , in the nature of things , and consistently of subsistence , that every man who stops short with the rights of man , one man can make a ...
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... holds a hand such as A♤ Q♢ or K♥ Q♥, which are hands that a player might call a raise with. If one of those ... hold'em you can't. ACTION HAND 11 Playing KK at the WSOP Hans “Tuna”Lund andIwere faced with thishand one year atthe ...
... holds a hand such as A♤ Q♢ or K♥ Q♥, which are hands that a player might call a raise with. If one of those ... hold'em you can't. ACTION HAND 11 Playing KK at the WSOP Hans “Tuna”Lund andIwere faced with thishand one year atthe ...
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... hold. If it happens that you are leading to such a marriage, you must break the yoke and run as fast as your feet can carry you. When you become a victim of a bewitched marriage, you will find it difficult to survive the ordeals that ...
... hold. If it happens that you are leading to such a marriage, you must break the yoke and run as fast as your feet can carry you. When you become a victim of a bewitched marriage, you will find it difficult to survive the ordeals that ...
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... holds the tenderness so close to her heart. • My key skill is making failure look like it was intentional. • There are new galaxies being born between all these pauses. There are a million stars dying while I wait for ... Hold on Pain Ends.
... holds the tenderness so close to her heart. • My key skill is making failure look like it was intentional. • There are new galaxies being born between all these pauses. There are a million stars dying while I wait for ... Hold on Pain Ends.
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... holds asmall pair. Even if youmisjudged the strength ofhis hand, it will be toughfor him to call with second or even top pair. It will appear thatyou hold two pair or better. Very few players can bluff on all three streets and good ...
... holds asmall pair. Even if youmisjudged the strength ofhis hand, it will be toughfor him to call with second or even top pair. It will appear thatyou hold two pair or better. Very few players can bluff on all three streets and good ...
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Atheist's Tragedy bafe Barons Wars Beaumont and Fletcher's becauſe beft beſt blood cauſe Chapman's Crown's Daniel's Davenant's Gondibert death defire doth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fafe fame fear feem fenfe fhall fhew fhould fince fire firft firſt flaves fleep fome foon foul ftand ftate ftill fubjects fuch fure fweet give greateſt greatneſs hath heart heav'n himſelf honour Ibid itſelf Johnson's juft juftice kifs kings laft lefs live loft Lord Brooke's Love's Lover's Melancholy luft marriage mifery mind Mirror for Magiftrates moft moſt muft muſt nature ne'er never night o'er ourſelves paffion pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe princes Queen of Corinth reafon reft Revenger's Tragedy rife Sejanus Shakespear's Shakespear's Hamlet ſhall ſhe Shirley's Siege of Rhodes ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou unto uſe virtue Whilft whofe Whoſe wife
Popular passages
Page 170 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 19 - To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Page 164 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 109 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 276 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 76 - Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt, prove ; And on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy ! lago.
Page 236 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 149 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 276 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.