The refusal, by the author of the Tale of the times, Band 11810 |
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... truth and falsehood , calumny and flattery , are blended with such enchanting confusion , that all the world is at once enjoying the ex- quisite delight of finding out secrets , and hearing scandal , without under- going the fatigue of ...
... truth and falsehood , calumny and flattery , are blended with such enchanting confusion , that all the world is at once enjoying the ex- quisite delight of finding out secrets , and hearing scandal , without under- going the fatigue of ...
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... the sign of his friend the inn- keeper . If slander therefore be fiction it is not slander ; and this decision rests upon the same ground as the dictum , that it is truth which consti- : tutes a libel . As then we can only in- 12.
... the sign of his friend the inn- keeper . If slander therefore be fiction it is not slander ; and this decision rests upon the same ground as the dictum , that it is truth which consti- : tutes a libel . As then we can only in- 12.
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... truth tended to check the restrain- ing impulses of laudable shame , and to create the demons they described . But I suspect that a correspondence with her bookseller , which she never per- mitted me to see , caused an altera- tion in ...
... truth tended to check the restrain- ing impulses of laudable shame , and to create the demons they described . But I suspect that a correspondence with her bookseller , which she never per- mitted me to see , caused an altera- tion in ...
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... . The times , she said , had disposed her to credit wonders , but not impossibilities , and when the newspapers were produced as evi- dences of the truth of the charge , she would either wish the laws againt slan- der were rigidly $ 8.
... . The times , she said , had disposed her to credit wonders , but not impossibilities , and when the newspapers were produced as evi- dences of the truth of the charge , she would either wish the laws againt slan- der were rigidly $ 8.
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... truth contending for the way ; And long ' twas doubtful , both so closely pent , Which first should issue through the narrow vent , At last agreed , together out they fly Inseparable now , the truth and lie . POPE . MR . STANZA , in his ...
... truth contending for the way ; And long ' twas doubtful , both so closely pent , Which first should issue through the narrow vent , At last agreed , together out they fly Inseparable now , the truth and lie . POPE . MR . STANZA , in his ...
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Seite 222 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 255 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Seite 192 - You hate me, you despise me ! you do well ; For what I've done I hate and scorn myself. Oh, night, fall on me ! I shall blush to death.
Seite 202 - Prince! I blush to think what I have said, But fate has wrested the confession from me; Go on, and prosper in the paths of honour, Thy virtue will excuse my passion for thee, And make the Gods propitious to our love.
Seite 239 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.