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... beauty , or to disentangle all the perceptions involved in its idea , would perhaps require a very great part of the life of Aristotle or Plato . It is , however , in many cases , apparent that this quality is merely relative and ...
... beauty , or to disentangle all the perceptions involved in its idea , would perhaps require a very great part of the life of Aristotle or Plato . It is , however , in many cases , apparent that this quality is merely relative and ...
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... beauty fades away , Than anguish and decay consume The smiling virgin's rosy bloom . SENECA . Some beauty's snatch'd each day , each hour ; For beauty is a fleeting flower : Then how can wisdom e'er confide In beauty's momentary pride ...
... beauty fades away , Than anguish and decay consume The smiling virgin's rosy bloom . SENECA . Some beauty's snatch'd each day , each hour ; For beauty is a fleeting flower : Then how can wisdom e'er confide In beauty's momentary pride ...
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departed beauty , and never entered my room with- out the whine of condolence or the growl of anger . She often wandered over my face , as a traveller over the ruins of a celebrated city , to note every place which had once been ...
departed beauty , and never entered my room with- out the whine of condolence or the growl of anger . She often wandered over my face , as a traveller over the ruins of a celebrated city , to note every place which had once been ...
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Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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