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Page 396
... beautiful than the largest and most Beautiful of ours ; for this Honour I would always administer to the Pride of our Sailors , who should challenge it from all their Neighbours with Truth and Success . And sure I am , that not our ...
... beautiful than the largest and most Beautiful of ours ; for this Honour I would always administer to the Pride of our Sailors , who should challenge it from all their Neighbours with Truth and Success . And sure I am , that not our ...
Page 612
... beautiful intricacies of natural luxuriance , and all the graduated harmonies of light and shade , melting into one ... beautiful . ' ' Will I said Sir Patrick : och ! but I won't . For what is beautiful ? That which pleases the eye ...
... beautiful intricacies of natural luxuriance , and all the graduated harmonies of light and shade , melting into one ... beautiful . ' ' Will I said Sir Patrick : och ! but I won't . For what is beautiful ? That which pleases the eye ...
Page 652
... beautiful or sublime to see , many a territory more ample ; but there was one charm in Attica , which in the same perfection was nowhere else . The deep pastures of Arcadia , the plain of Argos , the Thessalian vale , these had not the ...
... beautiful or sublime to see , many a territory more ample ; but there was one charm in Attica , which in the same perfection was nowhere else . The deep pastures of Arcadia , the plain of Argos , the Thessalian vale , these had not the ...
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Aesop agen beautiful better boat called Captain Church Crito Ctesippus dear death delight earth enemy England English eyes face fair Falstaff father feel flowers FRANCIS VERE Froissart's Chronicles garden gentleman give ground Guenever hand hath haue head hear heard heart heaven honour Jocelin John King knew knyght kyng labour Lady learned light live look Lord Lothair Makbeth master Messrs mind moche morning nature never night noble passed Pembroke College person Plato pleasure praye Prince Redgauntlet Robert of Scotland sayd sche seemed ship side sight silence sonne soul spirit stood sweet talk tell Temse thanne thee therfore things thou thought tion told took town trees turned uncle Toby unto vnto voice walked whan whole wind woman word wyll young