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... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real im- portance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his let ...
... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real im- portance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his let ...
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... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with inten- tion " to dissemble the main design of his com- ing over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " comply- ing ...
... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with inten- tion " to dissemble the main design of his com- ing over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " comply- ing ...
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... virtue made it innocent to him , the reasons that made him to follow the violent yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , the reasons that made him to follow the violent yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
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... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in.them too scholastic , they ...
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in.them too scholastic , they ...
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... 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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