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... Fortune , a Tragi - Comedy . - Loy . Sub . Loyal Subject , a Tragi - Comedy . -Sp . Cu . Spanish Curate , a Comedy . BEAUMONT , Sir John , 1582-1628 . BENJAMIN , Park , ( American ) , 1809-1864 . BICKERSTAFF , Isaac , * 1735-1805 ...
... Fortune , a Tragi - Comedy . - Loy . Sub . Loyal Subject , a Tragi - Comedy . -Sp . Cu . Spanish Curate , a Comedy . BEAUMONT , Sir John , 1582-1628 . BENJAMIN , Park , ( American ) , 1809-1864 . BICKERSTAFF , Isaac , * 1735-1805 ...
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... fortune by the arm , And go along with him . Shakespeare , Poems . Such a house broke ! Sh . Timon , II . 2 . Sh . Timon , v . 3 . This is in thee a nature but affected ; A poor unmanly melancholy , sprung From change of fortune ...
... fortune by the arm , And go along with him . Shakespeare , Poems . Such a house broke ! Sh . Timon , II . 2 . Sh . Timon , v . 3 . This is in thee a nature but affected ; A poor unmanly melancholy , sprung From change of fortune ...
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... fortunes , fall away Like water from ye , never found again But where they mean to sink ye . Farewell , a long ... fortune , never knew Himself , or his own virtue . Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue ; Where patience ...
... fortunes , fall away Like water from ye , never found again But where they mean to sink ye . Farewell , a long ... fortune , never knew Himself , or his own virtue . Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue ; Where patience ...
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... fortune made such havoc of my means , Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends , But they shall find , awaked in such a kind , Both strength of limb , and policy of mind , Ability of means , and choice of friends , To quit me of them ...
... fortune made such havoc of my means , Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends , But they shall find , awaked in such a kind , Both strength of limb , and policy of mind , Ability of means , and choice of friends , To quit me of them ...
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... fortune hears the incessant call , They mount , they shine , evaporate and fall . { VII . Johnson , V. H. W. This sov'reign passion , scornful of restraint , Even from the birth affects supreme command , Swells in the breast , and with ...
... fortune hears the incessant call , They mount , they shine , evaporate and fall . { VII . Johnson , V. H. W. This sov'reign passion , scornful of restraint , Even from the birth affects supreme command , Swells in the breast , and with ...
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