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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit , and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty . It shows virtue in the fairest light , takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice ...
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit , and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty . It shows virtue in the fairest light , takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice ...
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In that celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such beautiful but opposite lights , Cæsar's character is chiefly made up of good nature , as it showed itself ...
In that celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such beautiful but opposite lights , Cæsar's character is chiefly made up of good nature , as it showed itself ...
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The cloud , which , intercepting the clear light , Hangs o'er thy eyes , and blunts thy mortal sight , I will remove . WHEN I was at Grand Cairo , I picked up several oriental manuscripts , which I have still by me .
The cloud , which , intercepting the clear light , Hangs o'er thy eyes , and blunts thy mortal sight , I will remove . WHEN I was at Grand Cairo , I picked up several oriental manuscripts , which I have still by me .
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... Because I loved mortals too much evermore . Alas me ! what a murmur and motion I hear , As of birds flying near ! And the air undersings The light stroke of their wings — And all life that approaches I wait for in fear . а ...
... Because I loved mortals too much evermore . Alas me ! what a murmur and motion I hear , As of birds flying near ! And the air undersings The light stroke of their wings — And all life that approaches I wait for in fear . а ...
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I drew mortals back to light , From meditated ruin deep as hell ! For which wrong , I am bent down in these pangs Dreadful to suffer , mournful to behold , And I , who pitied man , am thought myself Unworthy of pity ; while I render out ...
I drew mortals back to light , From meditated ruin deep as hell ! For which wrong , I am bent down in these pangs Dreadful to suffer , mournful to behold , And I , who pitied man , am thought myself Unworthy of pity ; while I render out ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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