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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ... - Page 48
by John Milton - 1707 - 457 pages
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Memoirs of His Own Time: With Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the ...

Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...extol Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise: They praise and they admire they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extolled. To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to be despised, were no small...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...WHITTIER. MISFORTUNE. — (See ADVERSITY.) MOB — RABBLE. 1 . They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...WHITTIER. MISFORTUNE. — (See ADVERSITY.) MOB — RABBLE. 1. They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small...
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The Young Lady's Home

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Women - 1847 - 362 pages
...phantom ! Terrific consideration ! What will people say ? " They praise and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other. And what delight, to be by such extolled, • To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volumes 11-12

National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...blaze of fame? The peoples praise, if always praise unmixed ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other. And what delight to be by such extolled. To live upou their tongues, aud be their talk. Of whom to be dispraised were no small...
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Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend, Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1850 - 394 pages
...banners of liberty, from no principles or with bad ones : whether they be those, who admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : or whether those, Whose end is private hate, not help to freedom, Adverse and turbulent when she...
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The Works of John Milton, in Verse and Prose, Printed from the ..., Volume 2

John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...extol [praife, Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, fcarce worth the They praife and they admire they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the...what delight to be by fuch extoll'd, To live upon thir tongues and be thir talk, Of whom to be difprais'd were no fmall praife ? His lot who dares be...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...extol [praife, Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, fcarce worth the They praife and they admire they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the...what delight to be by fuch extoll'd, To live upon thir tongues and be thir talk, • Of whom to be difprais'd were no fimll praife ? His lot who dares...
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Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...' Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise! They praise, and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...extol Things vulgar, and well weighed, scarce worth the praise ?' They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extolled, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small...
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