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Page 46
... meet it smilingly , as it were half - way . Come , a handsome sacrifice ! See how light he makes of it ! Strain not courtesies with a noble enemy . 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 ! Strain not courtesies with a noble enemy . Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend ...
Page 59
... meet , And renders 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 . say you , reader do not these verses smack of ...
... meet , And renders 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 . say you , reader do not these verses smack of ...
Page 76
... meets me in the forest to - day , shall meet with no wiseacre , 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 , at ...
... meets me in the forest to - day , shall meet with no wiseacre , 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 , at ...
Page 95
... meet you on the square . He wants a point given him , like an indifferent whist - player . He is so used to teaching , 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 teaching , that he wants to be teaching you . One of these professors , upon my complaining that these little sketches of mine ...
Page 99
... meet- ing ( who never saw one another before in their lives ) and instantly fight- ing . We by proof find there should be ' Twixt man and man such an antipathy , That though he can show no just reason why For any former wrong or injury ...
... meet- ing ( who never saw one another before in their lives ) and instantly fight- ing . We by proof find there should be ' Twixt man and man such an antipathy , That though he can show no just reason why For any former wrong or injury ...
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