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... leave the ad- venture unfinished . On the other hand , as it has been justly ob- served , an alliance of men of Genius , Industry , and Property , is a perfect pledge for the merit , the resources , the durability , and fair character ...
... leave the ad- venture unfinished . On the other hand , as it has been justly ob- served , an alliance of men of Genius , Industry , and Property , is a perfect pledge for the merit , the resources , the durability , and fair character ...
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... leave the question , whether Spain is , in future , to be ruled by the Bourbon or the Napo- leon Dynasty , to quidnuncs and politicians ; and content myself with merely attempting to serve up an " Olla Podrida " for the entertain- ment ...
... leave the question , whether Spain is , in future , to be ruled by the Bourbon or the Napo- leon Dynasty , to quidnuncs and politicians ; and content myself with merely attempting to serve up an " Olla Podrida " for the entertain- ment ...
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... leave to call into view that scene in the tragedy of King Lear , where the virtuous and venerable Gloster degraded from the fortune , rank and power in which he had been nurtured , is pinioned by ruffians , and Cornwall having already ...
... leave to call into view that scene in the tragedy of King Lear , where the virtuous and venerable Gloster degraded from the fortune , rank and power in which he had been nurtured , is pinioned by ruffians , and Cornwall having already ...
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... leaves turned over carelessly , or with impatience . The stranger will run his eye through this page , dip into a single paragraph of ano- ther , catch up a single sentence from a third , and then , laying it aside , return to ordinary ...
... leaves turned over carelessly , or with impatience . The stranger will run his eye through this page , dip into a single paragraph of ano- ther , catch up a single sentence from a third , and then , laying it aside , return to ordinary ...
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... leaves uncut on the hall window of the Nobleman , to whom he had dedicated it . A few instances of this kind , speedily correct the erroneous notions of an author , as to the light in which his works will be viewed by other eyes than ...
... leaves uncut on the hall window of the Nobleman , to whom he had dedicated it . A few instances of this kind , speedily correct the erroneous notions of an author , as to the light in which his works will be viewed by other eyes than ...
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Page 112 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 509 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 264 - My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise : and nothing is, But what is not.
Page 138 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 238 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 379 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 264 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 256 - Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more.
Page 106 - Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady, Know of your love ? Oth.
Page 113 - A worm ! a God ! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home -a, stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own. How Reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy!