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  • Sometimes, on the contrary, with joy do I remember my fore-past sorrow, and with sorrow, joy.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Sometimes, on the contrary, with joy do I remember my fore-past sorrow, and with sorrow, joy.

    The Tenth Book 1909

  • But when it pleased the Lord, in his infinite goodness, to call me out of the spirit and ways of the world, and give me the knowledge of his saving truth, whereby the actions of my fore-past life were set in order before me, a sort of horror seized on me, when I considered how near I had been to the staining of my hands with human blood.

    The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713 1885

  • 'For the Poet thrusteth into the midst, even where it most concerneth him, and then recoursing to the things fore-past, and _divining of things to come_, he maketh a pleasing _analysis_ of ALL.'

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • Then they crowded sail, and beat the old sea, and forth they went with a forward gale; sad for fore-past losses, yet glad to have escaped at any rate; till they came to the isle where Aeolus reigned, who is god of the winds.

    The Adventures of Ulysses Charles Lamb 1804

  • But when it pleased the Lord, in his infinite goodness, to call me out of the spirit and ways of the world, and give me the knowledge of his saving truth, whereby the actions of my fore-past life were set in order before me, a sort of horror seized on me, when I considered how near I had been to the staining of my hands with human blood.

    The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself Thomas Ellwood 1676

  • [Guards seize BERTRAM] My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,

    All's Well That Ends Well 1601

  • 2834: My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall

    All's Well That Ends Well (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • V. iii.121 (130,7) [My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

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