Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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Page 8
... thou in smiles be drest . " If these lines will not put my readers in good humour with antithesis , I must either give them up as incorrigible , or prescribe to them a regu- lar course of reading discipline , administered by such ...
... thou in smiles be drest . " If these lines will not put my readers in good humour with antithesis , I must either give them up as incorrigible , or prescribe to them a regu- lar course of reading discipline , administered by such ...
Page 9
... thou- sand pounds into his hand , saying I must have your vote and influence on such a day . Our Aristides from the country thus replied : Sir Robert , you have shown yourself my friend on many occasions , and on points where both ...
... thou- sand pounds into his hand , saying I must have your vote and influence on such a day . Our Aristides from the country thus replied : Sir Robert , you have shown yourself my friend on many occasions , and on points where both ...
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... thou- sand modes of expressing its feelings , long before the lagging organs of the body are sufficiently developed to accomplish the articulation of them . But if mind be material , it must be both extended and divisible , for these ...
... thou- sand modes of expressing its feelings , long before the lagging organs of the body are sufficiently developed to accomplish the articulation of them . But if mind be material , it must be both extended and divisible , for these ...
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... thou wieldest an earthly sceptre , and thy gifts cannot exceed thy dominion . Like other potentates , thou also art a creature of circum- stance , and an Ephemeris of Time . Like other potentates , thou also , when stripped of thy ...
... thou wieldest an earthly sceptre , and thy gifts cannot exceed thy dominion . Like other potentates , thou also art a creature of circum- stance , and an Ephemeris of Time . Like other potentates , thou also , when stripped of thy ...
Page 79
... thou miss " Thee , good or ill , doth equally confound , " And both h the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; ' The joys we should pure virgins wed , " Thou brings't deflowered , to the nuptial bed . " THESE lines prove that the spirit of ...
... thou miss " Thee , good or ill , doth equally confound , " And both h the horns of Fate's dilemma wound ; ' The joys we should pure virgins wed , " Thou brings't deflowered , to the nuptial bed . " THESE lines prove that the spirit of ...
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