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J. & J. Harper, 1828

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Página 63 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 1 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 32 - ... the Mordecai travels with us. We cannot run away from ourselves. To be happy in the limited sense which Providence permits, let us make home the centre of our enjoyments. The fulfilment of those little duties which are at every moment presenting their claims, may be thought, by many, a strange receipt for contentment ; yet it is a very sure one, and if there ever was an axiom on the truth of which we may rely, it is, that
Página 57 - I shall be freed from opprobrious wrongs, That press me now, and bend my spirit downward: All Venice free, and every growing merit Succeed to its just right: fools shall be pulled From Wisdom's seat; those baleful unclean birds, Those lazy owls, who (perched near Fortune's top) Sit only watchful with their heavy wings To cuff down new-fledged virtues, that would rise To nobler heights, and make the grove harmonious.

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