 He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.  Cousins - Pàgina 238per Lucy Bethia Walford - 1879 - 513 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - 1869 - 474 pàgines
...that comfort which The damned pretend fellows in misery, Takes nothing from their torments. MASSINGER. HABITS are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 't is being flayed alive ! COWPEE, AWAY with custom ! 't is the plea of fools Where crimes enormous,... | |
 | 1920 - 880 pàgines
...masters, many writers attribute to it a strength greater than that of nature, and Cowper complains that habits are soon assumed; but. when we strive to strip them off. it's like being flayed alive. The habits that the writer of this little volume discusses, truly are... | |
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