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The favor with which it has been received has encouraged me to prepare the
present compilation , and to hope that henceforth these two works may stand side
by side as companion volumes . In collecting these prose quotations , I have ...
The favor with which it has been received has encouraged me to prepare the
present compilation , and to hope that henceforth these two works may stand side
by side as companion volumes . In collecting these prose quotations , I have ...
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ANTICIPATION Hope deceives , enjoyment undeceives . 153 Joseph Roux :
Meditations of a Parish Priest . Pt . v . , ix . ( Hapgood , Translator . ) ANTIPATHY .
There is one species of terror which those who are unwiliing to suffer the
reproach ...
ANTICIPATION Hope deceives , enjoyment undeceives . 153 Joseph Roux :
Meditations of a Parish Priest . Pt . v . , ix . ( Hapgood , Translator . ) ANTIPATHY .
There is one species of terror which those who are unwiliing to suffer the
reproach ...
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ASPIRATION Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue ;
stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots , dear to
God and famous to all ages . 280 Milton : Tractate of Education . ASSURANCE .
ASPIRATION Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue ;
stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots , dear to
God and famous to all ages . 280 Milton : Tractate of Education . ASSURANCE .
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Bees are sometimes drowned ( or suffocated ) in the honey which they collect .
So some writers are lost in their collected learning . 311 Hawthorne : American
Note - Books . 1842 . The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters .
Bees are sometimes drowned ( or suffocated ) in the honey which they collect .
So some writers are lost in their collected learning . 311 Hawthorne : American
Note - Books . 1842 . The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters .
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Andrew Marvel and Bishop Parker . Authors in general are stark mad on the
subject of their own works . 347 Le Sage : Gil Blas . Bk . vii . Ch . 4 . ( Smollett ,
Translator . ) Hope never tells a more flattering tale than in the ear of a dramatic
author .
Andrew Marvel and Bishop Parker . Authors in general are stark mad on the
subject of their own works . 347 Le Sage : Gil Blas . Bk . vii . Ch . 4 . ( Smollett ,
Translator . ) Hope never tells a more flattering tale than in the ear of a dramatic
author .
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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