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Pàgina xv
... favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and conquest , however splendid , suggest no new images ; the triumphal chariot of a victorious monarch can be decked only with those ornaments that have ...
... favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and conquest , however splendid , suggest no new images ; the triumphal chariot of a victorious monarch can be decked only with those ornaments that have ...
Pàgina xxiv
... favour it is exerted ; and a standing army is generally accounted necessary by those who command , and dangerous and oppres- sive by those who support it . ' Admirable as these and the like passages are , it is , however , in the life ...
... favour it is exerted ; and a standing army is generally accounted necessary by those who command , and dangerous and oppres- sive by those who support it . ' Admirable as these and the like passages are , it is , however , in the life ...
Pàgina 9
... favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill- success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He ...
... favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill- success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He ...
Pàgina 24
... favour is diffused o'er all , From which all fortunes , names , and natures fall ; Then from those wombs of stars , the Bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And sows the court with stars , and doth prevent In ...
... favour is diffused o'er all , From which all fortunes , names , and natures fall ; Then from those wombs of stars , the Bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And sows the court with stars , and doth prevent In ...
Pàgina 57
... favour of his of the public would now make him happy . is short and uncertain ; a second marriage so much disquiet , as for a time disordered his understanding ; and Butler lampooned him for his lunacy . I know not whether the malignant ...
... favour of his of the public would now make him happy . is short and uncertain ; a second marriage so much disquiet , as for a time disordered his understanding ; and Butler lampooned him for his lunacy . I know not whether the malignant ...
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