 | Darrelyn Gunzburg - 2004 - 340 pages
...virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects...calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. . ." Yet few people plan for it and at least two thirds of the population do not even make... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all Too envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that... | |
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That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit,... 
