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... whole direction we are referred to , and consequently all is left to the taste and understanding of the reader . In the midst of this uncertainty , Mr. Walker appears to have sug- gested a good criterion . " The principal circumstance ...
... whole direction we are referred to , and consequently all is left to the taste and understanding of the reader . In the midst of this uncertainty , Mr. Walker appears to have sug- gested a good criterion . " The principal circumstance ...
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... whole compass of nature . " Spectator , No. 411 . If we read this passage without that emphasis which the word dun- geon requires , we enervate the meaning , and scarcely give the sense of the author : for the import plainly is , that a ...
... whole compass of nature . " Spectator , No. 411 . If we read this passage without that emphasis which the word dun- geon requires , we enervate the meaning , and scarcely give the sense of the author : for the import plainly is , that a ...
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... whole . At that instant Democritus passed , laughing so immoderately that I was obliged to inquire the cause , surprised to see so wise a philoso- pher so off his guard . Composing himself , he replied , there are so many things in this ...
... whole . At that instant Democritus passed , laughing so immoderately that I was obliged to inquire the cause , surprised to see so wise a philoso- pher so off his guard . Composing himself , he replied , there are so many things in this ...
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... whole of this admirable production , not only as an example of superior composition , but as con- veying a much clearer exposition , than we can hope to give , of the plan and objects of the work . After some preliminary observations ...
... whole of this admirable production , not only as an example of superior composition , but as con- veying a much clearer exposition , than we can hope to give , of the plan and objects of the work . After some preliminary observations ...
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... whole soul was concentered in a cup of sack , must lose all his interest , his humour , his peculiarities , and his comic vices , if he displayed a single symptom of love . Since , then , it could not be fully effected , his object was ...
... whole soul was concentered in a cup of sack , must lose all his interest , his humour , his peculiarities , and his comic vices , if he displayed a single symptom of love . Since , then , it could not be fully effected , his object was ...
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Página 249 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Página 169 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back; — Their shots along the deep slowly boom: Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Página 229 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 65 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward ? Who calls me villain ? breaks my pate across ? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face ? Tweaks me by the nose ? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this ? Ha!
Página 168 - Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze ! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe, And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 166 - Forbid not thee to weep : Nor will the Christian host, Nor will thy father's spirit grieve, To see thee, on the battle's eve, Lamenting, take a mournful leave Of her who loved thee most : She was the rainbow to thy sight ! Thy sun — thy heaven — of lost delight ! ' To-morrow let us do or die. But when the bolt of death is hurled, Ah ! whither then with thee to fly, Shall Outalissi roam the world ? Seek we thy once-loved home...
Página 67 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Página 536 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 249 - tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewel it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then: and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Página 169 - Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn ; Why speak ye no word ! " — said Glenara the stern. " And tell me, I charge you ! ye clan of my spouse, Why fold ye your mantles, why cloud ye your brows?