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Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!
God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
Are similes at hand read more
A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
Are similes at hand for the distress
Of ladies who cannot have their own way.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
A new broome sweepeth cleane.
A new broome sweepeth cleane.
