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... causes and circumstances . Eloquence , it would seem , depends , in a great mea- sure , on the strength of the moral ... cause . No man becomes eloquent but by having his mind roused and agitated by some ennobling sentiment or passion ...
... causes and circumstances . Eloquence , it would seem , depends , in a great mea- sure , on the strength of the moral ... cause . No man becomes eloquent but by having his mind roused and agitated by some ennobling sentiment or passion ...
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... causes the phenomenon described . " A VOLCANO . " Upon proceeding up the cone of Vesuvius , the party found the crater at the summit , in a very active state , throwing out volleys of immense stones translucent with vitrification , and ...
... causes the phenomenon described . " A VOLCANO . " Upon proceeding up the cone of Vesuvius , the party found the crater at the summit , in a very active state , throwing out volleys of immense stones translucent with vitrification , and ...
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... cause , in form of battle stood , Whilst Catiline came on , not with the face Of any man , but of a public ruin : His countenance was a civil war itself ; And all his host had , standing in their looks , The paleness of the death that ...
... cause , in form of battle stood , Whilst Catiline came on , not with the face Of any man , but of a public ruin : His countenance was a civil war itself ; And all his host had , standing in their looks , The paleness of the death that ...
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... cause above our reason's reach ; If that clear flame deduce its heat from Heaven , ' Tis , like its cause , eternal ; always one , As is th ' instiller of divinest love , Unchanged by time , immortal , maugre death . But , oh , ' tis ...
... cause above our reason's reach ; If that clear flame deduce its heat from Heaven , ' Tis , like its cause , eternal ; always one , As is th ' instiller of divinest love , Unchanged by time , immortal , maugre death . But , oh , ' tis ...
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... causes , which the man of cultivated mind is accustomed to exert in his literary studies , would be equally useful and properly applied to the pur- suits of active life . In affirming , however , that litera- ture might be rendered ...
... causes , which the man of cultivated mind is accustomed to exert in his literary studies , would be equally useful and properly applied to the pur- suits of active life . In affirming , however , that litera- ture might be rendered ...
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Page 83 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ; — VOL.
Page 314 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 144 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 387 - So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy.
Page 391 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked* head. And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 388 - Wherewith, alas ! reviveth in my breast The sweet accord, such sleeps as yet delight ; The pleasant dreams, the quiet bed of rest ; The secret thoughts, imparted with such trust ; The wanton talk, the divers change of play ; The friendship sworn, each promise kept so just, Wherewith we past the winter night away.
Page 16 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land.
Page 83 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 148 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 392 - ON Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming ! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring Of what thy gentle people did befall ; Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore. Sweet land ! may I thy lost delights recall, And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore, Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore...