 MEMORY, like a beauty that is always present to hear herself flattered, is flattered by every one. But the absent and silent goddess, Forgetfulness, has no votaries, and is never thought of: yet we owe her much. She is the goddess of ease, though not...  Miscellaneous Letters & Essays: On Various Subjects - Страница 124написао/ла Thomas Paine - 1819 - 261 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 390 страница
...rNl * ^\ * .x -V cr ,\ r • ! S V. FORGETFULNESS FROM "THE CASTLE IN THE AIR," TO THE "LITTLE CORNER OF THE WORLD " MEMORY, like a beauty that is always...present to hear herself flattered, is flattered by everyone. But the absent and silent goddess, Forgetfulness, has no votaries, and is never thought of:... | |
 | 1915 - 434 страница
...no votaries, and is never thought of, yet we owe her much. She is the goddess of ease, though not ot pleasure. When the mind is like a room hung with black, and every corner of it crowded with the most horrid images imagination can create, this kind speechless goddess of a maid,... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 страница
...man: Memory, like a beauty that is always present to hear itself flattered, is flattered by everyone. But the absent and silent goddess, Forgetfulness,...like a room hung with black, and every corner of it crowded with the most horrid images imagination can create, this kind, speechless goddess of a maid,... | |
 | 1915 - 262 страница
...thoroughly typical of the kind of correspondence that passed "between this very diverse pair of friends. Memory like a beauty that is always present to hear...owe her much. She is the goddess of ease, though not ot pleasure. He goes on to relate with much feeling the case ot a young and despairing girl whom he... | |
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