The Promus of Formularies and EleganciesLongmans, Green and Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... look as if the primary object of these notes was to recall to memory the day's reading . It seems to point to some other aim , and a closer examination of the notes reveals a thread of connecting thought or sentiment running through ...
... look as if the primary object of these notes was to recall to memory the day's reading . It seems to point to some other aim , and a closer examination of the notes reveals a thread of connecting thought or sentiment running through ...
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... look back in later days to these notes , which would recall the studies of the past , whilst at every glance they suggested new trains of thought and more varied images and turns of expression . ' For those readers who do not possess ...
... look back in later days to these notes , which would recall the studies of the past , whilst at every glance they suggested new trains of thought and more varied images and turns of expression . ' For those readers who do not possess ...
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... look into , ' was edited and reprinted by Mr. Arber ( Southgate , 1868 ) . From this edition have been gathered the above particulars . Heywood , on account of the immense preponderance of proverbs 18 ENGLISH PROVERBS .
... look into , ' was edited and reprinted by Mr. Arber ( Southgate , 1868 ) . From this edition have been gathered the above particulars . Heywood , on account of the immense preponderance of proverbs 18 ENGLISH PROVERBS .
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... , on the approach of age , and on the small desire which he has to see his days prolonged when hope and strength were alike well nigh exhausted , looks forward to the end of his wearisome night , and to 36 LATIN PROVERBS .
... , on the approach of age , and on the small desire which he has to see his days prolonged when hope and strength were alike well nigh exhausted , looks forward to the end of his wearisome night , and to 36 LATIN PROVERBS .
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... look back upon the effects of your own care and work ; for that whereof the success was then doubtful is now happily performed . . . And you , Sir Francis Bacon , especially , as you did then by your countenance and loving affection ...
... look back upon the effects of your own care and work ; for that whereof the success was then doubtful is now happily performed . . . And you , Sir Francis Bacon , especially , as you did then by your countenance and loving affection ...
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Page 471 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 485 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 94 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 298 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 427 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 433 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 188 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 104 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 210 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 463 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.