Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 152
... fool consistent , and the false sincere ; Priests , princes , women , no dissemblers here . This clew once found , unravels all the rest ; The prospect clears , and Wharton stands con- fest . Wharton , the scorn and wonder of our days ...
... fool consistent , and the false sincere ; Priests , princes , women , no dissemblers here . This clew once found , unravels all the rest ; The prospect clears , and Wharton stands con- fest . Wharton , the scorn and wonder of our days ...
Page 159
... fool . But let them own that greater faults than we They had , and greater virtues , I'll agree . Spenser himself affects the obsolete , And Sydney's verse halts ill on Roman feet : Milton's strong pinion now not heaven can bound ...
... fool . But let them own that greater faults than we They had , and greater virtues , I'll agree . Spenser himself affects the obsolete , And Sydney's verse halts ill on Roman feet : Milton's strong pinion now not heaven can bound ...
Page 225
... fools . Satire ! had I thy Dorset's force divine , A knave or fool should perish in each line : Though for the first all Westminster should plead , And for the last all Gresham intercede . Begin - who first the catalogue should grace ...
... fools . Satire ! had I thy Dorset's force divine , A knave or fool should perish in each line : Though for the first all Westminster should plead , And for the last all Gresham intercede . Begin - who first the catalogue should grace ...
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