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My sister Harriet, applied Sir Charles to me, you need not, I hope, be told that I am a great ad-mirer of fine women.
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Every one of my fiiends jircsent (looking round him) is an ad-mirer of iier We cannot, my dear (applying to me) know ior certainty, tlie destiny of that excellent hub, — iVoni Mr.Lowther. lie () assed
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'Nam sic et Laberi mimos ut pulchra poemata mirer.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Horace; from Propertius compare II iii 33 'haec ego nunc _mirer si_ flagret nostra iuuentus?' and from Ovid _Her_ X 105 'non equidem _miror si_ stat uictoria tecum' and _Tr_ I ix 21 'saeua neque _admiror_ metuunt
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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She believed the time had come when the suffragists of the entire world could meet to their common benefit; and Miss Anthony, always Mrs. Catt's devoted friend and ad - mirer, agreed with her.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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Quid nunc iungentia mirer aut quid partitis distantia tecta trichoris? quid te, quae mediis seruata penatibus arbor60 tecta per et postis liquidas emergis in auras, quo non sub domino saeuas passura bipennis? et nunc ignaro forsan uel lubrica Nais uel non abruptos tibi demet Hamadryas annos. quid referam alternas gemino super aggere mensas65 albentisque lacus altosque in gurgite fontis? teque, per obliquum penitus quae laberis amnem,
A Villa at Tibur 1912
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However, lince it is not in my power to make an impreflion upon your heart, and fince I am well affured that I can never tafle felicity, unlefs the woman, whom I ftill adore, fhares it with me, I come to refign you, madam, to give you up to your fplendid ad - mirer.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus.
A Villa at Tibur 1912
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For our own part, we will adopt the conclusion of one of the most eloquent of those old pagan philosophers, on whose eyes the light of immediate revelation never dawned: -- "_Hic ego non mirer esse quemquam, qui sibi persuadeat, corpora quædam solida atque individua vi et gravitate ferri, mundumque effici ornatissimum et pulcherrimum ex corum corporum concursione fortuitâ?
A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850
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& ferenas Sole domos aditurus, ufque Humana mirer?
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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