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... word ; for instance , Pope's fine lines on Providence , ending with " whatever is , is right , " are placed under the word " All , ” because they so commence . Mr. Friswell's recent volume entitled ' Familiar Words ' has exactly the ...
... word ; for instance , Pope's fine lines on Providence , ending with " whatever is , is right , " are placed under the word " All , ” because they so commence . Mr. Friswell's recent volume entitled ' Familiar Words ' has exactly the ...
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... words or blows , Itself discharges on our foes . The elephant is never won with anger ; Sh . Jul . C. IV . 3 . Waller . Nor must that man , who would reclaim a lion , Take him by the teeth . Dryden , All for Love . ANGER - continued ...
... words or blows , Itself discharges on our foes . The elephant is never won with anger ; Sh . Jul . C. IV . 3 . Waller . Nor must that man , who would reclaim a lion , Take him by the teeth . Dryden , All for Love . ANGER - continued ...
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... words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed , and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew . ARISTOCRACY . Goldsmith . Des . Vil . 211 . Pope ...
... words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed , and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew . ARISTOCRACY . Goldsmith . Des . Vil . 211 . Pope ...
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... words I grant , baits and allurements sweet , But greatest hopes with greatest crosses meet . How are the sex ... word in hell ; Howlings attend it : how hast thou the heart , Being a divine , a ghostly confessor , A sin - absolver ...
... words I grant , baits and allurements sweet , But greatest hopes with greatest crosses meet . How are the sex ... word in hell ; Howlings attend it : how hast thou the heart , Being a divine , a ghostly confessor , A sin - absolver ...
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... words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel , until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight , His changing cheek , his sinking heart confess Byron . The might - the majesty of loveliness ...
... words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel , until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight , His changing cheek , his sinking heart confess Byron . The might - the majesty of loveliness ...
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