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Pàgina xxi
... virtue was deprived of a steady supporter , society of a brilliant ornament , and literature of a successful cultivator . The latter part of his life was honoured with general applause , for none was more fortunate in obtaining and ...
... virtue was deprived of a steady supporter , society of a brilliant ornament , and literature of a successful cultivator . The latter part of his life was honoured with general applause , for none was more fortunate in obtaining and ...
Pàgina 3
... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters ...
... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters ...
Pàgina 7
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
Pàgina 11
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . qurd gavol A Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too ...
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . qurd gavol A Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too ...
Pàgina 13
... Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson ...
... Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , love's undershrieve , Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson ...
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