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... woman to expose her husband's infirmities ? Bellair . Yes , I tell you , blows are more provoking and odious . What signify a few foolish angry words ? they don't break bones , nor give black eyes . Besides , this sort of language is ...
... woman to expose her husband's infirmities ? Bellair . Yes , I tell you , blows are more provoking and odious . What signify a few foolish angry words ? they don't break bones , nor give black eyes . Besides , this sort of language is ...
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... woman . — Ad- dison . CLIX . In all cases of slander currency , whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found , the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers . - Sheri- dan . CLX . It is , it seems , a ...
... woman . — Ad- dison . CLIX . In all cases of slander currency , whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found , the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers . - Sheri- dan . CLX . It is , it seems , a ...
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... woman carried off half dead from Bassette , and have many a time grieved to see a person of quality gliding by me in her chair at two o'clock in the morning , and looking like a spectre amidst a glare of flambeaux . In short , I never ...
... woman carried off half dead from Bassette , and have many a time grieved to see a person of quality gliding by me in her chair at two o'clock in the morning , and looking like a spectre amidst a glare of flambeaux . In short , I never ...
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... woman must find out something else to mortgage , when her pin - money is gone ; the husband has his lands to dispose of , the wife her person . Now when the female body is once dipped , if the creditor be very importunate , I leave my ...
... woman must find out something else to mortgage , when her pin - money is gone ; the husband has his lands to dispose of , the wife her person . Now when the female body is once dipped , if the creditor be very importunate , I leave my ...
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... woman , who was his housekeeper , as she sat with him at her work by the chimney - corner ; and could foretell the success of his play in the theatre , from the reception it met at his fireside ; for he tells us the au- dience always ...
... woman , who was his housekeeper , as she sat with him at her work by the chimney - corner ; and could foretell the success of his play in the theatre , from the reception it met at his fireside ; for he tells us the au- dience always ...
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Sida 183 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Sida 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Sida 223 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Sida 199 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Sida 238 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Sida 258 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Sida 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Sida 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Sida 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Sida 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...