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... pain , And drags at each remove a lengthening chain . Pope , Elcisa . Pope , Eloisa . Pope . Goldsmith , Traveller , 7 . Cowper , Task , VI . Not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stol'n away the slighted good , Is cause of ...
... pain , And drags at each remove a lengthening chain . Pope , Elcisa . Pope , Eloisa . Pope . Goldsmith , Traveller , 7 . Cowper , Task , VI . Not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stol'n away the slighted good , Is cause of ...
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... pain , As much , or more , we should ourselves complain . Sh . Com . E. 11. 1 . I pray thee , cease thy counsel Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve . Sh . Much A. v . 1 . Learn to be wise , and practise how to ...
... pain , As much , or more , we should ourselves complain . Sh . Com . E. 11. 1 . I pray thee , cease thy counsel Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve . Sh . Much A. v . 1 . Learn to be wise , and practise how to ...
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... pain ? And barr'd from every use of wealth , Envy the ploughman's strength and health . Ambition is an idol , on whose wings Great minds are carry'd only to extreme ; To be sublimely great , or to be nothing . The fiery soul abhorr'd in ...
... pain ? And barr'd from every use of wealth , Envy the ploughman's strength and health . Ambition is an idol , on whose wings Great minds are carry'd only to extreme ; To be sublimely great , or to be nothing . The fiery soul abhorr'd in ...
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... painful field . There's not a piece of feather in our host . Sh . H. v . IV . 3 . Sh . K. John , II . 1 . A braver choice of dauntless spirits , Than now the English bottoms have wait o'er , Did never float upon the swelling tide ...
... painful field . There's not a piece of feather in our host . Sh . H. v . IV . 3 . Sh . K. John , II . 1 . A braver choice of dauntless spirits , Than now the English bottoms have wait o'er , Did never float upon the swelling tide ...
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... pains Sought but to fill his belly with his brains . Is this the guerdon due to liberal arts , T'admire the head and then to starve the parts ? ARTIFICE . 27 Lady Alimony , a Com . 1659 . A man of sense can artifice disdain , As men of ...
... pains Sought but to fill his belly with his brains . Is this the guerdon due to liberal arts , T'admire the head and then to starve the parts ? ARTIFICE . 27 Lady Alimony , a Com . 1659 . A man of sense can artifice disdain , As men of ...
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