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Vii
Vii: It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. C.
Viii
Viii: I have no other but a woman's reason; I think him so because I think him so.
Valentine's Day
Valentine'S Day: On paper curiousiy shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines yclep'd, To Venus chime their annual…
Valor
Valor: V. Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The breath…
Vanity
Vanity: It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."
Variety
Variety: Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
Vice
Vice: Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.
Victory
Victory: Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of…
Villainy
Villainy: Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics,
Virtue
Virtue: Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
Visions
Visions: And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. C.
Voice
Voice: Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the…
Vant
Vant: SANDYS, GEORGE, poet, ENGLAND, 1577-about 1644 451 SANGSTER, MARGARET E., author, UNITED STATES, 1838-L. 95 222 609 SANNAZARO…
Vaulabelle, Achille Tenaille De
Vaulabelle, Achille Tenaille De: journalist and statesman, FRANCE, 1799-1879 757
Vauvenargues, Luc De Clapier De
Vauvenargues, Luc De Clapier De: moralist.. ... FRANCE, 1715-1747 754 758 759 767 773 774 782 785 791 794 797 VEDDER, DAVID, poet…
Vega, Carpio, Lope Felix De
Vega, Carpio, Lope Felix De: Burguillos," poet and dramatist, SPAIN, 1562-1635 605 VENNING, RALPH, lecturer, preacher, and writer…
Villars, Claude Louis Hector De
Villars, Claude Louis Hector De: general and marshal of France, FRANCE, 1653-1734 263 VILLON, FRANÇOIS, poet, FRANCE, about 1431-1484 589…
Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro
Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro: Roman epic, didactic, and idyllic poet.. ITALY, B.C. 70-19 278 299 409 424 497 563 675 676 677 678 679 681…