Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... gold , are but unsavory oft refused ; Or if received , are pocketed , not read . A suitor's swelling tears by the glowing beams Of choleric authority are dried up Before they fall , or if seen , never pitied . LVII . Massinger ...
... gold , are but unsavory oft refused ; Or if received , are pocketed , not read . A suitor's swelling tears by the glowing beams Of choleric authority are dried up Before they fall , or if seen , never pitied . LVII . Massinger ...
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... gold , or the signet of an emerald highly burnished . — Epictetus . CXVII . As ' t is a greater mystery in the art Of painting to foreshorten any part Than draw it out , so ' t is in books the chief Of all perfections to be plain and ...
... gold , or the signet of an emerald highly burnished . — Epictetus . CXVII . As ' t is a greater mystery in the art Of painting to foreshorten any part Than draw it out , so ' t is in books the chief Of all perfections to be plain and ...
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... gold , Is plagu'd with cramps , and gouts , and painful fits ; And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold : But still like pining Tantalus he sits , And useless bans the harvest of his wits , Having no other pleasure of his gain , But ...
... gold , Is plagu'd with cramps , and gouts , and painful fits ; And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold : But still like pining Tantalus he sits , And useless bans the harvest of his wits , Having no other pleasure of his gain , But ...
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... gold ; and he who uses it rightly , is more like a god than a man : but the English , who are the most subject , of all other people , to melan- choly , are , in general , very liberal and excellent feeders . -Burton . CLXIII . It was ...
... gold ; and he who uses it rightly , is more like a god than a man : but the English , who are the most subject , of all other people , to melan- choly , are , in general , very liberal and excellent feeders . -Burton . CLXIII . It was ...
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... gold , but always wants change for his ordinary occasions . - Steele . CCXLIII . Thus much the poet must necessarily borrow of the philo- sopher , as to be master of the common topics of morality . He must at least be speciously honest ...
... gold , but always wants change for his ordinary occasions . - Steele . CCXLIII . Thus much the poet must necessarily borrow of the philo- sopher , as to be master of the common topics of morality . He must at least be speciously honest ...
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