This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...from the heart. H. Taylor. HAUGHTY. Foe highest looks have not the highest mind, Nor haughty words most full of highest thought, But are like bladders blown up with the wind, Which being pricked evanish into nought. Spenser. Who now shall give me words and sound Equal unto this haughty enterprise? Or who shall lend me ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...from the heart. H. Taylor. HAUGHTY. Foe highest looks have not the highest mind, Nor haughty words most full of highest thought, But are like bladders blown up with the wind, Which being pricked evanish into nought. Spenser. Who now shall give me words and sound Equal unto this haughty enterprise? Or who shall lend me wings, with which from ground My lowly verse may loftily arise? Spenser. No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man; Nor no man's lord. Shakspere. Her heavenly form too haughtily she prized: Her person 's hated, and her gifts despised. Dry den. HAUNTED. Earth now Seem'd like to heaven, a seat where gods might dwell, Or wander with delight, and. love to haunt Her sacred shades. Milton. Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves; Diana Cynthus, Ceres Hybla loves. Pope. Oh! could I see my country seat! There, leaning near a gentle brook, Sleep, or peruse some ancient book; And there in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift. On every side the aspect was the same, All ruin'd, desolate, forlorn, and savage. No hand or foot within the precint came, To rectify or ravage. Yet over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Tiaunted! T. Hood. 348 HEALTH. HEARING. HEALTH. Th' ingredients of health and long life are Great temperance, open air, Easy labour, little care. Sir Philip Sidney. Hold thy hand! health's dear maintainer: Life perchance may burn the stronger: Having substance to maintain her, She perchance may last the longer. When the artist goes about To repress her flame, I doubt Oftentimes he snuffs it out. Quarles. The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill;--Most of those evils we poor mortals kn...
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