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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... Turn all her Mother's pains , and benefits , To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel , How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is , To have a thankless child ! Anathema . - Shakspeare . VILLAINS , Vipers , damn'd without redemption ...
... Turn all her Mother's pains , and benefits , To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel , How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is , To have a thankless child ! Anathema . - Shakspeare . VILLAINS , Vipers , damn'd without redemption ...
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... turn his theory to practice- let him make crime palpable - in an instant he feels its hot impress on his soul . Authority . Shakspeare . - THOUGH Authority be a stubborn bear , yet he is oft led by the nose with gold . Authority ...
... turn his theory to practice- let him make crime palpable - in an instant he feels its hot impress on his soul . Authority . Shakspeare . - THOUGH Authority be a stubborn bear , yet he is oft led by the nose with gold . Authority ...
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... turn to him when his coat is plain , and the Footmen serve him with attention and alacrity ; he may be sure that his Work has been praised by some Leader of literary Fashions . Authors . Byron . - ONE hates an Author that's all Author ...
... turn to him when his coat is plain , and the Footmen serve him with attention and alacrity ; he may be sure that his Work has been praised by some Leader of literary Fashions . Authors . Byron . - ONE hates an Author that's all Author ...
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... turn'd mine eye , The Morning - star of Memory ! Beauty . - Shakspeare . My Beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's ...
... turn'd mine eye , The Morning - star of Memory ! Beauty . - Shakspeare . My Beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's ...
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... turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride : and speak of Frays Like a fine bragging Youth : and tell quaint Lies , How honourable Ladies sought my Love , Which I denying they fell sick and died : I could not do with all : -then I will ...
... turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride : and speak of Frays Like a fine bragging Youth : and tell quaint Lies , How honourable Ladies sought my Love , Which I denying they fell sick and died : I could not do with all : -then I will ...
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Addison Anon bear Beauty Ben Jonson Bliss bosom breast breath Bruyere Byron Character charms Chesterfield Cicero Colton Cowper Cunning Death delight divine doth Earth Evil eyes fair fear feel fire Fisher Ames flatter Folly Fool Fortune Friends Friendship Genius give Gold Grace Greville Grief Happiness hath Health Heart Heaven honest Honour Hope hour human Joanna Baillie La Bruyere La Rochefoucauld light live Lobe Lobe.-Byron Lobe.-Shakspeare look Love man's mankind Marriage Milton mind moral Nature ne'er never Night o'er pain Passions Peace Pindar Pleasure Plutarch Praise Pride reason Religion rich Rochefoucauld Seneca Shakspeare sigh Sir Walter Raleigh Sleep smile Socrates Sorrow Soul Spenser spirit sweet Tacitus Tears thee things Thomson thou art thou hast thought tongue true Truth Vanity vex'd Vice Virtue Washington Irving wind Wisdom wise Woman Woman.-Shakspeare words Young Youth