Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... Doth often close in pollution , yet of thee I will believe , thou hast a Mind that suits With this thy fair and outward Character . Appreciation.- Lord Greville . YOU may fail to shine , in the opinion of others , both in your ...
... Doth often close in pollution , yet of thee I will believe , thou hast a Mind that suits With this thy fair and outward Character . Appreciation.- Lord Greville . YOU may fail to shine , in the opinion of others , both in your ...
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... doth not feel , until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight , His changing cheek , his sinking heart confess The Might - the Majesty of Loveliness ? Beauty . - Spenser . LONG while I sought to what I might compare ...
... doth not feel , until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight , His changing cheek , his sinking heart confess The Might - the Majesty of Loveliness ? Beauty . - Spenser . LONG while I sought to what I might compare ...
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... doth lose . Beauty . Shakspeare . - How like Eve's Apple doth thy Beauty grow , If thy sweet Virtue answer not thy Show ! Beauty . Shakspeare . COULD Beauty have better commerce than with Honesty ? Beauty . - Spenser . HER Looks were ...
... doth lose . Beauty . Shakspeare . - How like Eve's Apple doth thy Beauty grow , If thy sweet Virtue answer not thy Show ! Beauty . Shakspeare . COULD Beauty have better commerce than with Honesty ? Beauty . - Spenser . HER Looks were ...
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... doth challenge that fair field ; Then Virtue claims from Beauty Beauty's Red , Which Virtue gave the Golden Age to gild Their Silver Cheeks , and call'd it then their shield ; Teaching them thus to use it in the fight , - When Shame ...
... doth challenge that fair field ; Then Virtue claims from Beauty Beauty's Red , Which Virtue gave the Golden Age to gild Their Silver Cheeks , and call'd it then their shield ; Teaching them thus to use it in the fight , - When Shame ...
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... doth excell , Sparkled on her from God's owne glorious Face , And more increast by her owne goodly Grace , That it doth farre exceed all human Thought , Ne can on Earth compared be to ought . Beauty . Shakspeare . ― BEAUTY lives with ...
... doth excell , Sparkled on her from God's owne glorious Face , And more increast by her owne goodly Grace , That it doth farre exceed all human Thought , Ne can on Earth compared be to ought . Beauty . Shakspeare . ― BEAUTY lives with ...
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