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... nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain af plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to escape censure , a man must pass his whole life , without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing ...
... nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain af plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to escape censure , a man must pass his whole life , without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing ...
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... nature . This he knew ; but Calista did not as yet know it , or at least had not learnt it from his lips . Love is timerous and diffident . A bold suitor is not the real lover of the lady whom he addresses : He sceks for noth- ing but ...
... nature . This he knew ; but Calista did not as yet know it , or at least had not learnt it from his lips . Love is timerous and diffident . A bold suitor is not the real lover of the lady whom he addresses : He sceks for noth- ing but ...
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... nature of love that a man may enjoy it without loving , and love without ever enjoying it . 13. They will be constant in their love . This I dare al- so to predict ; and I know the reason . Their affection is not founded on the dazzling ...
... nature of love that a man may enjoy it without loving , and love without ever enjoying it . 13. They will be constant in their love . This I dare al- so to predict ; and I know the reason . Their affection is not founded on the dazzling ...
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... nature did much for him ; in a week he was able to thank his benefactor . 11. By that time his host had learned the name and character of his guest . He was a protestant and clergy- man of Switzerland called La Roche , a widower , who ...
... nature did much for him ; in a week he was able to thank his benefactor . 11. By that time his host had learned the name and character of his guest . He was a protestant and clergy- man of Switzerland called La Roche , a widower , who ...
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... nature seems to re- pose in quiet , and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible . 23. A stream that spent its fury in the hills above , ran in front of the house , and a broken water fall was seen through the woods that ...
... nature seems to re- pose in quiet , and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible . 23. A stream that spent its fury in the hills above , ran in front of the house , and a broken water fall was seen through the woods that ...
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Page 207 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Page 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
Page 79 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Page 190 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Page 153 - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
Page 169 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Page 208 - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
Page 217 - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.