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... fortune for finding readers willing to allow him any ( 1 ) [ " But now the God , remote , a heavenly guest , In Æthiopia grac'd the general feast ; There on the world's extremest verge , rever'd With hecatombs and prayer in pomp preferr ...
... fortune for finding readers willing to allow him any ( 1 ) [ " But now the God , remote , a heavenly guest , In Æthiopia grac'd the general feast ; There on the world's extremest verge , rever'd With hecatombs and prayer in pomp preferr ...
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... fortunes were nearly equal , their studies the same , and they were natives of the two most celebrated cities in the world ; for Alcander was of Athens , Septimius came from Rome . In this mutual harmony they.lived for some time toge ...
... fortunes were nearly equal , their studies the same , and they were natives of the two most celebrated cities in the world ; for Alcander was of Athens , Septimius came from Rome . In this mutual harmony they.lived for some time toge ...
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... fortune wrought as unexpected a change in the constitution of the now happy Septimius . In a few days he was perfectly recovered , and set out with his fair partner for Rome . Here , by an exertion of those talents of which he was so ...
... fortune wrought as unexpected a change in the constitution of the now happy Septimius . In a few days he was perfectly recovered , and set out with his fair partner for Rome . Here , by an exertion of those talents of which he was so ...
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... and skies , Allures from far , yet , as I follow flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . " - TRAVELLER . ] raise my compassion for their miseries , were not my THE BEE .
... and skies , Allures from far , yet , as I follow flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . " - TRAVELLER . ] raise my compassion for their miseries , were not my THE BEE .
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... fortune have united his fame with that of our human prodigy . The first of his performances , openly , in vindication of the Newtonian system , is his treatise intituled , " Sur la Figure des Astres , " if I remember right ; a work at ...
... fortune have united his fame with that of our human prodigy . The first of his performances , openly , in vindication of the Newtonian system , is his treatise intituled , " Sur la Figure des Astres , " if I remember right ; a work at ...
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Side 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Side 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Side 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Side 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Side 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Side 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...