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... person arrived on horseback , genteelly though plainly dressed in a blue frock , with his own hair cut short , and a gold - laced hat upon his head . Alighting , and giving his horse to the landlord , he advanced to an old man who was ...
... person arrived on horseback , genteelly though plainly dressed in a blue frock , with his own hair cut short , and a gold - laced hat upon his head . Alighting , and giving his horse to the landlord , he advanced to an old man who was ...
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... persons - the whole being garnished by her own drawings . All these things you must inspect , for she only shows them in the hope of entertaining you ; and then she turns to music . She has had selections from the last opera sent to her ...
... persons - the whole being garnished by her own drawings . All these things you must inspect , for she only shows them in the hope of entertaining you ; and then she turns to music . She has had selections from the last opera sent to her ...
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... persons , nor in their actions , nor in their times . It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty , or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains men ...
... persons , nor in their actions , nor in their times . It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty , or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains men ...
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... person of decrepit age over fiery youth , of mental over physical power , of the long - enthralled Church over the long - tyrannising world , all combined to form a triumph too intoxicating even for that capacious intellect . The ...
... person of decrepit age over fiery youth , of mental over physical power , of the long - enthralled Church over the long - tyrannising world , all combined to form a triumph too intoxicating even for that capacious intellect . The ...
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... person of her chief , by the Vicar of the meek , the lowly , and the compassionate Redeemer . A third day came , and , still irreverently trampling on the hereditary lord of the fairer half of the civilised world , Hildebrand once more ...
... person of her chief , by the Vicar of the meek , the lowly , and the compassionate Redeemer . A third day came , and , still irreverently trampling on the hereditary lord of the fairer half of the civilised world , Hildebrand once more ...
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Page 71 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 23 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Page 130 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites...
Page 121 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore!
Page 31 - Jane; In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain; And then she went away. "So in the church-yard she was laid; And, when the grass was dry, Together round her grave we played, My brother John and I. "And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side." "How many are you, then," said I, "If they two are in heaven?
Page 23 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote...
Page xi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 84 - Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry,...
Page 11 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 90 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...