Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 775
... pride . Bred in camps and courts , it cannot be fuppofed that he was untainted with the fathionable vices of thefe warm climates ; but ( if I may be allowed the expreffion ) he dignified them , inftead of their degrad . ing him into any ...
... pride . Bred in camps and courts , it cannot be fuppofed that he was untainted with the fathionable vices of thefe warm climates ; but ( if I may be allowed the expreffion ) he dignified them , inftead of their degrad . ing him into any ...
Page 904
... pride , by the examples of human miferies which be- fal the greatest ; in few words , to expel arrogance and introduce compaffion , are the greateft effects of tragedy . Great , I must confefs , if they were altogether as lafting as ...
... pride , by the examples of human miferies which be- fal the greatest ; in few words , to expel arrogance and introduce compaffion , are the greateft effects of tragedy . Great , I must confefs , if they were altogether as lafting as ...
Page 1042
... Pride that dines on vanitys sups on contempt ; Pride break- fasted with Plenty , dined with Poverty , and supped with Infamy . " And , after all , of what use is this pride of appearance , for which so much is risked , so much is ...
... Pride that dines on vanitys sups on contempt ; Pride break- fasted with Plenty , dined with Poverty , and supped with Infamy . " And , after all , of what use is this pride of appearance , for which so much is risked , so much is ...
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