Shorter Novels, Volume 1Philip Henderson J.M. Dent, 1929 - English fiction |
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Page 200
... death without mercie , better to be tormented with haplesse fancie , then with hellish fiends , for in life it is possible to represse calamitie , but after death never to redresse miserie . Tully , Gwydonius , in his Tusculans ...
... death without mercie , better to be tormented with haplesse fancie , then with hellish fiends , for in life it is possible to represse calamitie , but after death never to redresse miserie . Tully , Gwydonius , in his Tusculans ...
Page 254
... death is no dolor , in that he perfectlie knowes there is no salve can cure his sorrow , so to him which feares to die , and yet hopes to live , death were thrice more welcome , than to linger in such doubt . In which cursed case alasse ...
... death is no dolor , in that he perfectlie knowes there is no salve can cure his sorrow , so to him which feares to die , and yet hopes to live , death were thrice more welcome , than to linger in such doubt . In which cursed case alasse ...
Page 327
... death substitutes one frend his special baily to arrest another by infection , and dispearseth his quiver into ten thousande hands at once , who is it but lookes about him ? A man that hath an unevitable huge stone hanging only by a ...
... death substitutes one frend his special baily to arrest another by infection , and dispearseth his quiver into ten thousande hands at once , who is it but lookes about him ? A man that hath an unevitable huge stone hanging only by a ...
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