The rising sun, by Cervantes Hogg, Volume 3 |
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... natural deformity would be increased by the very means they take to conceal it . They go on laying one coat of enamel upon another , until those coverings , like the slippery and treacherous glaciers of Savoy and Switzer- land , cover a ...
... natural deformity would be increased by the very means they take to conceal it . They go on laying one coat of enamel upon another , until those coverings , like the slippery and treacherous glaciers of Savoy and Switzer- land , cover a ...
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... naturally pos- sessed of certain vices , which were the very re- verse of those virtues for which he was famed . " Whatever you may think of this man's opi- nion , " replied Socrates , " I can assure you that there are all those vices ...
... naturally pos- sessed of certain vices , which were the very re- verse of those virtues for which he was famed . " Whatever you may think of this man's opi- nion , " replied Socrates , " I can assure you that there are all those vices ...
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... naturally virtuous . We applaud a painter for casting the defects . of his original in the shade ; and none but those , who prefer ugliness to beauty , will censure a person for calling in the aid of art to conceal the blemishes of ...
... naturally virtuous . We applaud a painter for casting the defects . of his original in the shade ; and none but those , who prefer ugliness to beauty , will censure a person for calling in the aid of art to conceal the blemishes of ...
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... natural sorrow , -an affected laugh than a heartfelt groan , and for the same reason that they prefer a gilt vase to the unpolished surface of baser metal . Hypocrisy , like the jeweller , lends her aid to polish and beautify the ...
... natural sorrow , -an affected laugh than a heartfelt groan , and for the same reason that they prefer a gilt vase to the unpolished surface of baser metal . Hypocrisy , like the jeweller , lends her aid to polish and beautify the ...
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... natural sieves , and cannot retain ; and others , again , who have stronger passions than a sense of honour , which they will even sacrifice to them . On account of their importance , or supposed importance , ( for , every thing is not ...
... natural sieves , and cannot retain ; and others , again , who have stronger passions than a sense of honour , which they will even sacrifice to them . On account of their importance , or supposed importance , ( for , every thing is not ...
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Page 126 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 54 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 127 - Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew Slivered in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab : Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron.
Page 95 - They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
Page 70 - Cover'd with feathers of all sorts of birds ; Would you not laugh, and think the painter mad ? Trust me that book is as ridiculous, Whose incoherent style, like sick men's dreams, Varies all shapes, and mixes all extremes.
Page 101 - Theosophically he describes it, by showing that " true Religion Is always mild, propitious and humble; Plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood, Nor bears destruction on her chariot wheels; But stoops to polish, succour and redress, And builds her grandeur on the public good.
Page 126 - Round about the cauldron go ; In the poison'd entrails throw.— Toad, that under the cold stone, Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i
Page 140 - What do the damn'd endure, but to despair ? But knowing heaven, to know it lost for e'er.
Page 97 - ... time there would not be one living soul remaining, his joy was turned into grief, and he could not forbear weeping at the uncertainty and instability of human things. He might have found another subject of reflection, which would have more justly merited his tears and affliction, had he turned...
Page 95 - Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy ; Then swell with pride, and must be titled gods, Great benefactors of mankind, deliverers...