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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... head . Adversity . Addison . THE Gods in bounty work up Storms about us , That give Mankind occasion to exert Their hidden Strength , and throw out into practice Virtues that shun the day , and lie conceal'd In the smooth seasons and ...
... head . Adversity . Addison . THE Gods in bounty work up Storms about us , That give Mankind occasion to exert Their hidden Strength , and throw out into practice Virtues that shun the day , and lie conceal'd In the smooth seasons and ...
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... 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 have all over - cast . Age . - Young . AGE should fly concourse , cover in ...
... 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 have all over - cast . Age . - Young . AGE should fly concourse , cover in ...
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... the dowry of a second head , The skull that bred them , in the sepulchre . Thus Ornament is but the guiled shore To the most dangerous sea ; the beauteous scarf Vailing an Indian beauty ; in a word , The OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 13.
... the dowry of a second head , The skull that bred them , in the sepulchre . Thus Ornament is but the guiled shore To the most dangerous sea ; the beauteous scarf Vailing an Indian beauty ; in a word , The OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 13.
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... Head a Wreath , that was enrold With ears of Corne of every sort , he bore , And in his Hand a Sickle he did holde , To reape the ripened Fruit the which the Earth had yold . Autumn . - Thomson . FLED is the blasted Verdure of the ...
... Head a Wreath , that was enrold With ears of Corne of every sort , he bore , And in his Hand a Sickle he did holde , To reape the ripened Fruit the which the Earth had yold . Autumn . - Thomson . FLED is the blasted Verdure of the ...
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... head . Beauty.- Byron . HER Glance how wildly beautiful ! how much 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 ...
... head . Beauty.- Byron . HER Glance how wildly beautiful ! how much 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 ...
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