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Henry George Bohn. 6 ADVERSITY - continued . ADVERSITY . Sweet are the uses of adversity , Which , like the toad ... sweet humanity , Calm fortitude , take root and strongly flourish . Somerville . Butler , Hud . Mallet , Alfred ...
Henry George Bohn. 6 ADVERSITY - continued . ADVERSITY . Sweet are the uses of adversity , Which , like the toad ... sweet humanity , Calm fortitude , take root and strongly flourish . Somerville . Butler , Hud . Mallet , Alfred ...
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... Sweet words I grant , baits and allurements sweet , But greatest hopes with greatest crosses meet . How are the sex improved in amorous arts ! What new found snares they bait for human hearts . BALL - see Dancing . Fairfax . Prior . Of ...
... Sweet words I grant , baits and allurements sweet , But greatest hopes with greatest crosses meet . How are the sex improved in amorous arts ! What new found snares they bait for human hearts . BALL - see Dancing . Fairfax . Prior . Of ...
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... sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem , For that sweet odour which doth in it live . My beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment ...
... sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem , For that sweet odour which doth in it live . My beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment ...
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... sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art , That strike mine eyes , but not my heart . B. Jonson , Sil . Wo.1.1 . Beauty's our grief , but in the ore We mint , we stamp , and then adore ; Like heathens we the image ...
... sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art , That strike mine eyes , but not my heart . B. Jonson , Sil . Wo.1.1 . Beauty's our grief , but in the ore We mint , we stamp , and then adore ; Like heathens we the image ...
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... sweet control , Making the heart all holiness and love , And lifting it to worlds that shine above . BED . In bed we laugh , in bed we cry , And born in bed , in bed we die ; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss and human woe ...
... sweet control , Making the heart all holiness and love , And lifting it to worlds that shine above . BED . In bed we laugh , in bed we cry , And born in bed , in bed we die ; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss and human woe ...
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