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... thought apposite and striking . At that period there existed scarcely any books of English quotations practically accessible : Allot's ' England's Parnassus , ' published as long back as 1600 , and which gives only the earlier poets ...
... thought apposite and striking . At that period there existed scarcely any books of English quotations practically accessible : Allot's ' England's Parnassus , ' published as long back as 1600 , and which gives only the earlier poets ...
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... thought grew pain , And memory , like a drop that , night and day , Falls cold and ceaseless , wore my heart away ! ABSTINENCE . Moore , Lalla Rookh . Yet abstinence in things we must profess , Which nature fram'd for need , not for ...
... thought grew pain , And memory , like a drop that , night and day , Falls cold and ceaseless , wore my heart away ! ABSTINENCE . Moore , Lalla Rookh . Yet abstinence in things we must profess , Which nature fram'd for need , not for ...
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... thoughts no tongue , Sh . Hen . VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried , Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel : But ...
... thoughts no tongue , Sh . Hen . VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried , Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel : But ...
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... thought- A noble fool was never in a fault . The worst men give oft the best advice . AFFABILITY . Gentle to me , and affable hath been Thy condescension , and shall be honoured ever With grateful memory . AFFECTATION . Stillingfleet ...
... thought- A noble fool was never in a fault . The worst men give oft the best advice . AFFABILITY . Gentle to me , and affable hath been Thy condescension , and shall be honoured ever With grateful memory . AFFECTATION . Stillingfleet ...
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... thought strikes deepest , and strikes safest . Savage , Sir T. Ov . His eyes like meteors roll'd , then darted down Their red and angry beams ; as if his sight Would , like the raging dog - star , scorch the earth , And kindle rivers in ...
... thought strikes deepest , and strikes safest . Savage , Sir T. Ov . His eyes like meteors roll'd , then darted down Their red and angry beams ; as if his sight Would , like the raging dog - star , scorch the earth , And kindle rivers in ...
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