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"Qual avria crudel martire, Se alfin vedesse, che le lunghe notti Ei veglia sol per fare altrui dormire."

Ibid.

"PARA enturbiar el agua basta poco movimiento, y para sossegarla es menester mucho tiempo."-GIL GONZALEZ Davila.

DAVENANT calls poets,

"Love's partial jewellers,

Who count nought precious but their mistress' eyes."

"GET a painter, Sir,

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THE Institutes of Menu rank a poetical encomiast with one of evil repute, a dancer, a cheat, an oilman, and a seller of the moonplant.

B. LEONARDO has a sonnet on this thought.
“Es nuestra alma en nuestra palma
Si el proverbio no nos miente."
Los 100 Preguntas.

"ALEXANDER and Darius, when they strave who should be cock of this world's

And when he has wrought a woman by your dunghill."-SIR P. SIDNEY, D. of Poesie. fancy,

See if you know her again. Were it not fine

If you should see your mistress without hair,

"OPPOSING duty against reason, or rather accompting duty a reason sufficient."

CAREW's Survey of Cornwall.

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Cansadas de remar (qu'es mal oficio)
La rica vela dieron con contento
Al fresco aire, dexando el exercicio
Qu'es proprio causador de gran tormento
Y premio en fin de todo qualquier vicio
Por mal del masculin genero hallado
Y muerte la mas cruda que han pensado."
Sec. Part, Orlando Furioso,
canto 3, p. 13.

-SPIGELIUS. De Hum. Corp. Fab. p. 9.Cyclopædia. Man.

Schoolmasters have discovered a different final cause.

"WINGS are the property of genius, and of genius only. He that encounters genius in its flight must himself be upon the wing. What advantage is it to the man on foot that he shall take the same direction; since,

Tây keoɑdŋy megúλago, was the advice though he can creep, he cannot soar?"— to a soldier. STOLBERG'S Travels, vol. 2, p. 41.

In this vile poem Cotaldo (the hero) slices off a giant's arm.

"El Jayan con la su diestra pone
El ya caido braço y le compone.
Como suelen surzir delgadamente
El paño Inglez, de todos el mas fino,
Con el aguja y seda que consiente
Cegarse la rotura del camino;
Assi apegado fuera el muy valiente
Braço d'aquel Jayan por su destino,
El Borgoñon quedo maravillado
Viendo a su contrario assi curado."
C. 9, p. 47.

ORLANDO kills a giant who has a lion with him.

“El animal señala aver sentido
La muerte del Señor, porque consiste
En el fiero leon conocimiento
Mas que otro animal so el firmamento."
C. 11, p. 55.

"THE people," says WARBURTON," are much more reasonable in their demands on their patriots than on their ministers. Of their patriots they readily accept the will for the deed, but of their ministers they unjustly interpret the deed for the will."

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"SOLUS homo ex omnibus animalibus" commodè sedet, cui carnosæ et magnæ nates contigêre, et pro substernaculo pulvinarique, tomento repleto, inserviunt, ut citra molestiam sedendo, cogitationibus rerum divinarum animum rectè applicare possit."

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