Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... Earth , Is fashion'd for the journey , dull and heavy . Age . - Pope . LEARN to live well , or fairly make your will ; You've play'd , and lov'd , and ate , and drank your Fill , Walk sober off , before a sprightlier Age Come's titt ...
... Earth , Is fashion'd for the journey , dull and heavy . Age . - Pope . LEARN to live well , or fairly make your will ; You've play'd , and lov'd , and ate , and drank your Fill , Walk sober off , before a sprightlier Age Come's titt ...
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... Earth had yold . Autumn . - Thomson . FLED is the blasted Verdure of the Fields ; And shrunk into their Beds , the flowery Race Their sunny robes resign . Even what remain'd Of stronger Fruits falls from the naked Tree ; And Woods ...
... Earth had yold . Autumn . - Thomson . FLED is the blasted Verdure of the Fields ; And shrunk into their Beds , the flowery Race Their sunny robes resign . Even what remain'd Of stronger Fruits falls from the naked Tree ; And Woods ...
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... Earth , to which I dare Resemble the Image of their goodly light . Not to the Sun , for they do shine by Night ; Nor to the Moon , for they are changed never ; Nor to the Stars , for they have purer Sight ; Nor to the Fire , for they ...
... Earth , to which I dare Resemble the Image of their goodly light . Not to the Sun , for they do shine by Night ; Nor to the Moon , for they are changed never ; Nor to the Stars , for they have purer Sight ; Nor to the Fire , for they ...
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... Earth compared be to ought . Beauty . Shakspeare . ― BEAUTY lives with Kindness . Beauty . - Crabbe . LO ! when the Buds expand the Leaves are green , Then the first opening of the Flower is seen ; Then come the honied breath and rosy ...
... Earth compared be to ought . Beauty . Shakspeare . ― BEAUTY lives with Kindness . Beauty . - Crabbe . LO ! when the Buds expand the Leaves are green , Then the first opening of the Flower is seen ; Then come the honied breath and rosy ...
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... earth nor boundless sea , But sad Mortality o'er - sways their power , How with this rage shall Beauty hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O , how shall Summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of ...
... earth nor boundless sea , But sad Mortality o'er - sways their power , How with this rage shall Beauty hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O , how shall Summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of ...
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