Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion. 91 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. 92 WARTON: _Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon._ =Apathy.= In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fixed as in a frost. 93 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 101. =Apparel.= Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 94 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3. |
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