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... truth of the pathetic lines of his son- " Vain transitory splendours ! Could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! The front , including a wing , extends , as nearly as could be judged by pacing it , sixty - eight feet ...
... truth of the pathetic lines of his son- " Vain transitory splendours ! Could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! The front , including a wing , extends , as nearly as could be judged by pacing it , sixty - eight feet ...
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... truth is , I shall never be able to acquire a power of expressing myself with ease in any language but my own ; and out of my own country , the highest charac- ter I can ever acquire is that of being a philosophic vaga- bond . When I ...
... truth is , I shall never be able to acquire a power of expressing myself with ease in any language but my own ; and out of my own country , the highest charac- ter I can ever acquire is that of being a philosophic vaga- bond . When I ...
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... truths , they were at once re- ceived with opposition and contempt . The English , it is true , studied , understood , and consequently admired them ; it was very different on the Continent . Fontenelle , who seemed to preside over the ...
... truths , they were at once re- ceived with opposition and contempt . The English , it is true , studied , understood , and consequently admired them ; it was very different on the Continent . Fontenelle , who seemed to preside over the ...
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... truth on his side , carried his cause . Almost all the learning of the English , till very lately , was conveyed in the language of France . The writings of Maupertuis spread the reputation of his master Newton , and by a happy fortune ...
... truth on his side , carried his cause . Almost all the learning of the English , till very lately , was conveyed in the language of France . The writings of Maupertuis spread the reputation of his master Newton , and by a happy fortune ...
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... truth , I do not find they have a greater aversion to fine clothes than the women of any other coun- try whatsoever . I cannot fancy that a shopkeeper's wife in Cheapside has a greater tenderness for the fortune of her husband than a ...
... truth , I do not find they have a greater aversion to fine clothes than the women of any other coun- try whatsoever . I cannot fancy that a shopkeeper's wife in Cheapside has a greater tenderness for the fortune of her husband than a ...
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Sida 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Sida 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Sida iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Sida 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Sida 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Sida 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Sida 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Sida 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Sida 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Sida 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...