"Know you then the Duchess, lady?" "Aye, forsooth, and my heart doth grieve for her, poor, sweet wretch, for O, 'tis a sad thing to be a duchess with a multitude of suitors a-wooing in season and out, vaunting graces she hath not, and blind to the virtues she doth possess.

No one can produce a dog that has half the odour of Reynard, and this odour the dog-fox would doubtless possess were its sire a fox-dog or its dam a vixen.

Busts, cameos, gems,such things as these, Which others often show for pride, I value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride; One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess.

None of the stories except "Let Us Follow Him" possess for me so many transcendent beauties, although we are right to be angry with the author for having wished, during the reading of several pages, to make us believe an impossible thingthat he was deceiving us.

And that is why the principles governing rent possess, as I indicated at the outset of this chapter, an importance more fundamental than our present system of ownership and tenure.

45. 'Believe not those that lands possess, And shining heaps of useless ore, The only lords of happiness; But rather those that know For what kind fates bestow, And have the heart to use the store That have the generous skill to bear The hated weight of poverty.' (Creech).

Yes, with endurance, let it too A tender modesty possess; And to its grim strength let it add The gracious power of gentleness.

"When Clive has had five or six years at school"that was his scheme"he will be a fine scholar, and have at least as much classical learning as a gentleman in the world need possess.

How little value his friendship must needs possess for her, when she could abandon him thus without a word!

Go hence; and henceforth never set thy foot In house or field thou didst this day possess.