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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... sleep soundly in his bed ; for his sins , wanting as it were substance , having no actual solidity to leave their traces in his memory , all future retribution may seem to him a thing with which , in any event , he can have no concern ...
... sleep soundly in his bed ; for his sins , wanting as it were substance , having no actual solidity to leave their traces in his memory , all future retribution may seem to him a thing with which , in any event , he can have no concern ...
Page 42
... Sleeping in bright Tranquillity , - When the blue Waters rise and fall , In sleepy Sunshine mantling all ; And ev'n that Swell the Tempest leaves , Is like the full and silent heaves Of Lovers ' Hearts , when newly blest , Too newly to ...
... Sleeping in bright Tranquillity , - When the blue Waters rise and fall , In sleepy Sunshine mantling all ; And ev'n that Swell the Tempest leaves , Is like the full and silent heaves Of Lovers ' Hearts , when newly blest , Too newly to ...
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... Sleep doth reign . Care . Spenser . RUDE was his garment , and to rags all rent , Ne better had he , ne for better ... sleeps with ' t now , Yet not so sound , and half so deeply sweet , As he , whose brow , with homely biggin bound ...
... Sleep doth reign . Care . Spenser . RUDE was his garment , and to rags all rent , Ne better had he , ne for better ... sleeps with ' t now , Yet not so sound , and half so deeply sweet , As he , whose brow , with homely biggin bound ...
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... sleep under a fresh tree's shade , All which secure and sweetly he enjoys , Is far beyond a Prince's delicates , His viande sparkling in a golden cup , His body couched in a curious bed , When Care , Mistrust , and Treason , wait on him ...
... sleep under a fresh tree's shade , All which secure and sweetly he enjoys , Is far beyond a Prince's delicates , His viande sparkling in a golden cup , His body couched in a curious bed , When Care , Mistrust , and Treason , wait on him ...
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... sleep : To make the weeper laugh , the laugher weep , He had the dialect and different skill , Catching all passions in his craft of will ; That he did in the general bosom reign Of young , of old ; and sexes both enchanted . Character ...
... sleep : To make the weeper laugh , the laugher weep , He had the dialect and different skill , Catching all passions in his craft of will ; That he did in the general bosom reign Of young , of old ; and sexes both enchanted . Character ...
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