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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.
Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the read more
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to read more
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a
harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of
beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two
noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his
Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and
light."
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing read more
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two
noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.