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A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of Junius ... - Page 353
by George Coventry (of Wandsworth.) - 1825 - 382 pages
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved text ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 400 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, hooks in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good hi every thing....
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...me what I am ! — Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the nmning brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything....
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On School Education: Designed to Assist Parents in Choosing and Cooperating ...

James Pycroft - Classical education - 1843 - 256 pages
...this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running stream, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." As You Like It, Act II. Sc. \. Imagination is to the mind what moral sense is to the heart. Without moral sense, mere reason...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...retired from the world. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...persuade me what I am." Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything....
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Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears Clotcn. Cln. Hilloa, loa ! i . ' ACT III. SCENE III. Shep. What ! art so haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears wars, and never bed her. Par. France is a dog-hole, and it no more meri haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
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