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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... Hath faulty wander'd and irregular , Find pardon on my true submission . Acquaintance . - Seneca . IT is safer to affront some People than to oblige them ; for the better a Man deserves , the worse they will speak of him . Acquaintance ...
... Hath faulty wander'd and irregular , Find pardon on my true submission . Acquaintance . - Seneca . IT is safer to affront some People than to oblige them ; for the better a Man deserves , the worse they will speak of him . Acquaintance ...
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... hath not seen them ( even with those wings Which sometimes they have used with fearful flight ) Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest , Offering their own lives in their young's defence ? Affection . - Rogers . GENEROUS as ...
... hath not seen them ( even with those wings Which sometimes they have used with fearful flight ) Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest , Offering their own lives in their young's defence ? Affection . - Rogers . GENEROUS as ...
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... no decent joy . Him even the dissolute admir'd ; for he A graceful looseness when he pleas'd put on , And laughing could instruct . B Age.- Spenser . THE careful cold hath nipt my rugged OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 7 Age. - Steele. ...
... no decent joy . Him even the dissolute admir'd ; for he A graceful looseness when he pleas'd put on , And laughing could instruct . B Age.- Spenser . THE careful cold hath nipt my rugged OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 7 Age. - Steele. ...
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... hath nipt my rugged rind , And in my Face deep furrows eld hath plight ; My Head besprent with hoary frost I find , And by mine Eye the crow his claw doth wright ; Delight is laid abed , and pleasure , past ; No Sun now shines , clouds ...
... hath nipt my rugged rind , And in my Face deep furrows eld hath plight ; My Head besprent with hoary frost I find , And by mine Eye the crow his claw doth wright ; Delight is laid abed , and pleasure , past ; No Sun now shines , clouds ...
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... Hath Phoebus woo'd in vain to spoil her Cheek , Which glows yet smoother from his amorous clutch ! Who round the North for paler dames would seek ? How poor their forms appear ! how languid , wan , and weak ! Beauty . - Spenser . YE ...
... Hath Phoebus woo'd in vain to spoil her Cheek , Which glows yet smoother from his amorous clutch ! Who round the North for paler dames would seek ? How poor their forms appear ! how languid , wan , and weak ! Beauty . - Spenser . YE ...
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