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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,…
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
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A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
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The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and…
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
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Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained…
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
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I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of…
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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And…
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And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
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Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the…
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore,…
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Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of…
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Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue…
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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
— John Milton
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