The Promus of Formularies and EleganciesLongmans, Green and Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... ' Verily , by my reason it is so ' ( entry 206 ) ; and how skilfully turned is the epistolary conclu- sion ( entry 116 ) , Wishing you all happiness , and myself ( ( < opportunity to do you service ; or ( entry 1398 PREFACE . xi.
... ' Verily , by my reason it is so ' ( entry 206 ) ; and how skilfully turned is the epistolary conclu- sion ( entry 116 ) , Wishing you all happiness , and myself ( ( < opportunity to do you service ; or ( entry 1398 PREFACE . xi.
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... Reason , Impulse , Belief , Dullness , Wis- dom , Causes PAGE 139 144 . 149 90. Quotations from Virgil's Eclogues , ' Appius in Sall , de Re- publ . Ordin . , ' Ovid's Ex . Pont . Am . ' and Met . , ' Erasmus ' ' Ad . , ' Lucan , and ...
... Reason , Impulse , Belief , Dullness , Wis- dom , Causes PAGE 139 144 . 149 90. Quotations from Virgil's Eclogues , ' Appius in Sall , de Re- publ . Ordin . , ' Ovid's Ex . Pont . Am . ' and Met . , ' Erasmus ' ' Ad . , ' Lucan , and ...
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... reasons which have led to a conviction that these notes are not only curious and quaint , but of extreme interest to most literary persons , are as follow . In connection with a work in which the present writer has been for some years ...
... reasons which have led to a conviction that these notes are not only curious and quaint , but of extreme interest to most literary persons , are as follow . In connection with a work in which the present writer has been for some years ...
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... reason or other , he wished to fix in his mind . This would in all cases be a good exercise for the memory , and in some cases . it may have been practised for that alone . But there is something in his selection of sentences and verses ...
... reason or other , he wished to fix in his mind . This would in all cases be a good exercise for the memory , and in some cases . it may have been practised for that alone . But there is something in his selection of sentences and verses ...
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... reason- able , supposition that Bacon and Shakespeare may have ' borrowed ' from each other , it would follow that in such a case we should have to persuade ourselves , contrary to all evidence , that they held close intercourse , or ...
... reason- able , supposition that Bacon and Shakespeare may have ' borrowed ' from each other , it would follow that in such a case we should have to persuade ourselves , contrary to all evidence , that they held close intercourse , or ...
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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.