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Grief . ch fubftance of a grief hath twenty fhadows , ch fhew like grief itself , but are not fo : orrow's eye , glazed ... Let's talk of graves , of worms , and epitaphs ; Make duft our paper , and with rainy eyes Write forrow on the ...
Grief . ch fubftance of a grief hath twenty fhadows , ch fhew like grief itself , but are not fo : orrow's eye , glazed ... Let's talk of graves , of worms , and epitaphs ; Make duft our paper , and with rainy eyes Write forrow on the ...
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Page 246 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
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| Title | Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Vicesimus Knox |
| Author | Extracts |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Published | 1805 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Apr 11, 2006 |
| Length | 1016 pages |
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