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... human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius ...
... human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius ...
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... human testimony , are very lightly uttered ; and , once uttered , are sullenly supported . Boileau , who desired to be thought a rigorous and steady moralist , having told a petty lie to Lewis the Fourteenth , continued it afterwards by ...
... human testimony , are very lightly uttered ; and , once uttered , are sullenly supported . Boileau , who desired to be thought a rigorous and steady moralist , having told a petty lie to Lewis the Fourteenth , continued it afterwards by ...
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... d . LEONORA . It bore the accent of a human voice . ALMERIA . It was thy fear , or else some transient wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle : We'll listen - Hark ! LEONORA . ALMERIA No , all is hush'd CONGREVE . 27.
... d . LEONORA . It bore the accent of a human voice . ALMERIA . It was thy fear , or else some transient wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle : We'll listen - Hark ! LEONORA . ALMERIA No , all is hush'd CONGREVE . 27.
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... human nature , which is incapable of faultless productions . When an excellent drama appears in public , and by its intrinsic worth attracts a general applause , he is not stung with envy and spleen ; nor does he express a savage nature ...
... human nature , which is incapable of faultless productions . When an excellent drama appears in public , and by its intrinsic worth attracts a general applause , he is not stung with envy and spleen ; nor does he express a savage nature ...
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... human interests and passions . To this description the compositions of Gay do not always conform . For a fable he gives now and then a tale , or an abstracted allegory ; and from some , by whatever name they may be called , it will be ...
... human interests and passions . To this description the compositions of Gay do not always conform . For a fable he gives now and then a tale , or an abstracted allegory ; and from some , by whatever name they may be called , it will be ...
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