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... hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty . Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace , To silence envious tongues . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Sh . Hen . VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou ...
... hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty . Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace , To silence envious tongues . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Sh . Hen . VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou ...
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... hate ; For thou art Folly's counterfeit , and she Who is right foolish hath the better plea : Nature's true idiot I prefer to thee ! There affectation , with a sickly mien , Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen . In man or woman ...
... hate ; For thou art Folly's counterfeit , and she Who is right foolish hath the better plea : Nature's true idiot I prefer to thee ! There affectation , with a sickly mien , Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen . In man or woman ...
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... hate succeeds , They wage the war ; but ' tis the father bleeds . Young . The virtuous man and honest - he's my brother ; And he alone ; for nature never meant By her affections to engage our hearts To villany and baseness . Francis ...
... hate succeeds , They wage the war ; but ' tis the father bleeds . Young . The virtuous man and honest - he's my brother ; And he alone ; for nature never meant By her affections to engage our hearts To villany and baseness . Francis ...
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... hate of those below . Byron , Ch . H. 111. 45 . To th ' expanded and aspiring soul , To be but still the thing it long has been , Is misery , e'en though enthron'd it were Under the cope of high imperial state . AMERICA . Poor lost ...
... hate of those below . Byron , Ch . H. 111. 45 . To th ' expanded and aspiring soul , To be but still the thing it long has been , Is misery , e'en though enthron'd it were Under the cope of high imperial state . AMERICA . Poor lost ...
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... trembles for his store , And fears to give a farthing to the poor ; Proclaims that penury will be his fate And , scowling , looks on charity with hate . Peter Pindar . D 34 AVARICE - AWKWARDNESS . AVARICE - continued . May.
... trembles for his store , And fears to give a farthing to the poor ; Proclaims that penury will be his fate And , scowling , looks on charity with hate . Peter Pindar . D 34 AVARICE - AWKWARDNESS . AVARICE - continued . May.
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