The Speaker ; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ... ; To which are Prefixed, Two EssaysJ. Gold, 1803 - 332 Seiten |
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... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords ... truth itself appear like falsehood . VIRTUE should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid ...
... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords ... truth itself appear like falsehood . VIRTUE should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid ...
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... truth is not at the bottom , nature will always be endeav- ouring to return , and will betray herself at one time or other . Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good , let him be so indeed , and then his goodness will ap ...
... truth is not at the bottom , nature will always be endeav- ouring to return , and will betray herself at one time or other . Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good , let him be so indeed , and then his goodness will ap ...
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... truth , not trust- ed when perhaps he means honestly . When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity , nothing will then serve his turn , neither truth nor falsehood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world ...
... truth , not trust- ed when perhaps he means honestly . When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity , nothing will then serve his turn , neither truth nor falsehood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP cheerful cried Dæmons death earth elocution endeavour eternal EUST ev'n ev'ry expression father fear feel fool fortune FRAM Gauls genius give Gods grace hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope IAGO imagination kind king labour live Long Parliaments look lord MACD mankind manner Maria marriage means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble Nymph o'er pain passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise racters Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE SIR JOHN smile soul sound speak spirit STERL suavitèr in modo sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought tion Tis green truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole WILLIAM ENFIELD wisdom wise words writing youth