The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... folly , or to the eminence of those that use them , die away with their inventors , and their meaning , in a few years , is no longer known . Easy poetry is commonly sought in petty com- positions upon minute subjects ; but ease ...
... folly , or to the eminence of those that use them , die away with their inventors , and their meaning , in a few years , is no longer known . Easy poetry is commonly sought in petty com- positions upon minute subjects ; but ease ...
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... . Pol , me occidistis , amici , Non servastis , ait ; cui sic extorta voluptas , Et demtus per vim mentis gratissimus error . HOR . Lib . ii . Ep . ii . 138 . The mischievous consequences of vice and folly , of irregular 29 THE IDLER.
... . Pol , me occidistis , amici , Non servastis , ait ; cui sic extorta voluptas , Et demtus per vim mentis gratissimus error . HOR . Lib . ii . Ep . ii . 138 . The mischievous consequences of vice and folly , of irregular 29 THE IDLER.
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Samuel Johnson. The mischievous consequences of vice and folly , of irregular desires and predominant passions , are best discovered by those relations which are levelled with the general surface of life , which tell not how any man ...
Samuel Johnson. The mischievous consequences of vice and folly , of irregular desires and predominant passions , are best discovered by those relations which are levelled with the general surface of life , which tell not how any man ...
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... folly . Almost all the moral good , which is left among us , is the apparent effect of physical evil . Goodness is divided by divines into soberness , righteousness and godliness . Let it be examined how each of these duties would be ...
... folly . Almost all the moral good , which is left among us , is the apparent effect of physical evil . Goodness is divided by divines into soberness , righteousness and godliness . Let it be examined how each of these duties would be ...
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... , JANUARY 19 , 1760 HATEVER is useful or honourable will be desired by many who never can obtain it ; and that which cannot be obtained when it is desired , artifice or folly will be diligent to counterfeit . Those 56 THE IDLER.
... , JANUARY 19 , 1760 HATEVER is useful or honourable will be desired by many who never can obtain it ; and that which cannot be obtained when it is desired , artifice or folly will be diligent to counterfeit . Those 56 THE IDLER.
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