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The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: Being a ... - Page 326
by Cecil B. Hartley - 1875 - 332 pages
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...the use of a friend is more pleasing and necessary than the elements of fire and water." Montaigne. " The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel." Shakspeare. MOST men flatter themselves that they are not only capable of friendship, but that...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...the use of a friend is more pleasing and necessary than the elements of fire and water." Montaigne. " The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel." Shakspeare. MOST men flatter themselves that they are not only capable of friendship, but that...
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The court favourite; or, Facts and fiction of the nineteenth century

Jane Roberts - 1840 - 954 pages
...the friendly greeting of her husband and Carlos. That time, alas ! was never to come. CHAPTER XIII. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. ShaJapeare. WE linger yet in the year 18-12, for much was enacted both at home and abroad. Buonaparte...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...the use of a friend is more pleasing and necessary than the elements of fire and water." Montaigne. " The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel." Shakiptart. MOST men flatter themselves that they are not only capable of friendship, but that...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...With this his mandate he recalls, And slowly seeks his castle halls. Advice to a Son going to travel. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar : The friends thou hast; and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with...
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
.... . . Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought its act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their...adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe ; — All may be well ! Advice to a Son going to Travel. 1. GIVE thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar : The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with"...
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Results of Reading

James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...unproportion'd thought his act. 1 Swift. 2 Young. 3 Horace Walpole. * Comedy of Errors. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their...adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel: But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of...
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The Tests of Time: A Story for Social Life

Sara Wood - English fiction - 1843 - 312 pages
...sick chamber, the hour of sudden calamity, or any of the other trying scenes of life. CHAPTER VIII. " The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel: »***»* To thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not...
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...you : [Laying his hand on LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with...
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