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... - Andepend- nians , which was not followed ; and the affair suc- ceeding happily contrary to his opinion , somebody said , Well , Phocion , art thou pleased that this af Tents . fair turns out so well ? I am very glad 14 OF REPENTANCE .
... - Andepend- nians , which was not followed ; and the affair suc- ceeding happily contrary to his opinion , somebody said , Well , Phocion , art thou pleased that this af Tents . fair turns out so well ? I am very glad 14 OF REPENTANCE .
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... thou wilt on Dido call ; But all in vain ; thy shipwreck I shall know By fame convey'd me to the shades below , Xenophon was sacrificing , with a crown upon his head , when news was brought to him of the death of his son Cryllus , slain ...
... thou wilt on Dido call ; But all in vain ; thy shipwreck I shall know By fame convey'd me to the shades below , Xenophon was sacrificing , with a crown upon his head , when news was brought to him of the death of his son Cryllus , slain ...
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... Thou deity , by whom all nature's sway'd , Without whose power nothing can spring to light , Or beautiful , or lovely to the sight . Verses , Amyot's translation of Plutarch , chap . 5 . + Lucret . lib . i . ver . 22 . are in a great ...
... Thou deity , by whom all nature's sway'd , Without whose power nothing can spring to light , Or beautiful , or lovely to the sight . Verses , Amyot's translation of Plutarch , chap . 5 . + Lucret . lib . i . ver . 22 . are in a great ...
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... thou , for all that Achæmenes had , Or all the Phrygian wealth before thee laid , Or riches that in Arab's houses are , Exchange one lock of dear Licinia's hair ? While to the fervent kiss her neck she plies , Or with a pretty anger ...
... thou , for all that Achæmenes had , Or all the Phrygian wealth before thee laid , Or riches that in Arab's houses are , Exchange one lock of dear Licinia's hair ? While to the fervent kiss her neck she plies , Or with a pretty anger ...
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... thou . You see how many honest men are reproached with this in your presence , and you may be sure that you are not spared behind your back . Nay , the very ladies will be laughing too ; and what are they more apt to banter in this ...
... thou . You see how many honest men are reproached with this in your presence , and you may be sure that you are not spared behind your back . Nay , the very ladies will be laughing too ; and what are they more apt to banter in this ...
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Seite 35 - I pass away most of the Days of my Life, and most of the Hours of the Day.
Seite 300 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Seite 256 - But such a companion should be chosen and acquired from your first setting out. There can be no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind, that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to communicate it to.
Seite 132 - Frigidus in Venerem senior, frustraque laborem Ingratum trahit ; et, si quando ad proelia ventum est, Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis, Incassum furit.
Seite 320 - Nor is the profit small, the peasant makes, Who smooths with harrows, or who pounds with rakes, The crumbling clods: nor Ceres, from on high, Regards his...
Seite 125 - quando artibus' inquit 'honestis nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, res hodie minor est here quam fuit atque eadem eras deteret exiguis aliquid, proponimus illuc ire, fatigatas ubi Daedalus exuit alas, 25 dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, dum superest Lachesi quod torqueat et pedibus me porto meis nullo dextram subeunte bacillo...
Seite 239 - Tis the supreme quality of a woman, which a man ought to seek before any other, as the only dowry that must ruin or preserve our houses. Let men say what they will according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other virtues...
Seite 365 - nature," "pleasure," "circle," "substitution." The question is one of words, and is answered in the same way. "A stone is a body." But if you pressed on: "And what is a body?"— "Substance."— "And what is substance?
Seite 268 - ... fortuitous, and introduced for want of heed. Tis the indiligent reader who loses my subject, and not I; there will always be found some words or other in a corner, that is to the purpose, though it lie very close.
Seite 310 - A quick and earnest way of speaking as mine is, is apt to run into hyperbole. There is nothing to which men commonly are more inclined, than to give way to their own opinions.