The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with biographical and explanatory notes, ed. by R. Garnett, L. Vallée, A. Brandl. Imperial ed, Volume 14Richard Garnett 1899 |
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... come , you do not know me , if you believe as you say ; for it is most cer- tain that I love them with all my soul ; and that in all my life I never found myself so constant nor so amorous . And whereas this Maid could not very easily ...
... come , you do not know me , if you believe as you say ; for it is most cer- tain that I love them with all my soul ; and that in all my life I never found myself so constant nor so amorous . And whereas this Maid could not very easily ...
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... comes back to his Sister , who was very melancholic . For it had happened that her Lover , being returned , had ... come to me , and I will promise him my consent . I know that thereby VOL . XIV . - 2 I shall banish myself from a place ...
... comes back to his Sister , who was very melancholic . For it had happened that her Lover , being returned , had ... come to me , and I will promise him my consent . I know that thereby VOL . XIV . - 2 I shall banish myself from a place ...
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... comes just as the Marquis is rising , speaks to him of his passion for his Sister , shows that he covets his ... come on purpose to his Mistress's Mother , to discover his design unto her . As soon as the Marquis saw him enter , he ...
... comes just as the Marquis is rising , speaks to him of his passion for his Sister , shows that he covets his ... come on purpose to his Mistress's Mother , to discover his design unto her . As soon as the Marquis saw him enter , he ...
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... come at their house , but since he was to be gone to the Court the day following , to send a compliment to her Brother and her Sisters , as indeed he did . The Marquis took post the next morning , leaving his Sister very well contented ...
... come at their house , but since he was to be gone to the Court the day following , to send a compliment to her Brother and her Sisters , as indeed he did . The Marquis took post the next morning , leaving his Sister very well contented ...
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... Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears , And slits the thin - spun life . " But not the praise , " Phoebus replied , and touched my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil , Nor in the glistering foil Set ...
... Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears , And slits the thin - spun life . " But not the praise , " Phoebus replied , and touched my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil , Nor in the glistering foil Set ...
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Page 376 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 54 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
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Page 54 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
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Page 255 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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