Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.
Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd. - Theresa Villiers
Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.
- Theresa Villiers
For all true love is grounded on esteem. - Theresa Villiers
For all true love is grounded on esteem.
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. - Theresa Villiers
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.
Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at … - Theresa Villiers
Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at …
She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true lo… - Theresa Villiers
She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true lo…
I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare. - Theresa Villiers
I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time! - Theresa Villiers
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse. - Theresa Villiers
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things? - Theresa Villiers
What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?
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