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... honour . How much of this is true ? -how much does it differ from the character of that other Mr. Smith whom you ... honours , 50 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... honour . How much of this is true ? -how much does it differ from the character of that other Mr. Smith whom you ... honours , 50 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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James Hain Friswell. where the heroes were gifted with almost divine honours , and were said to have performed innumerable great deeds . The twelve labours of Hercules and the deeds of Orpheus were the wonder of the young men of Greece ...
James Hain Friswell. where the heroes were gifted with almost divine honours , and were said to have performed innumerable great deeds . The twelve labours of Hercules and the deeds of Orpheus were the wonder of the young men of Greece ...
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... honour , some husband's peace , cheating some confiding father or gentle wife , still retained a certain amount of courage , that quality being always essential to man ; but beyond that , they had scarcely one human virtue . Fielding ...
... honour , some husband's peace , cheating some confiding father or gentle wife , still retained a certain amount of courage , that quality being always essential to man ; but beyond that , they had scarcely one human virtue . Fielding ...
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... honour , than had England in the French . After the romantic hero , there succeeded , led on by Henry Mackenzie , the sentimental , soft , reflective , and very good hero , the Man of Feeling , whose heart was open as the day to melting ...
... honour , than had England in the French . After the romantic hero , there succeeded , led on by Henry Mackenzie , the sentimental , soft , reflective , and very good hero , the Man of Feeling , whose heart was open as the day to melting ...
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... Honour sinks where Commerce long prevails . Athens and Rome , raised by heroes , fell at last to huck- sters . The throne of the empire of Rome was put up to public auction , and sold to perhaps the meanest of mortals ; for he who would ...
... Honour sinks where Commerce long prevails . Athens and Rome , raised by heroes , fell at last to huck- sters . The throne of the empire of Rome was put up to public auction , and sold to perhaps the meanest of mortals ; for he who would ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.