Miscellanies, Volumen1J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... believe it ! How few of us , when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men , take the story simply as it stands . On the contrary , we try to ex- plain it it all not to have been so very to prove away ; wonderful to impute ...
... believe it ! How few of us , when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men , take the story simply as it stands . On the contrary , we try to ex- plain it it all not to have been so very to prove away ; wonderful to impute ...
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... believe more in nobleness , and to gird up their loins to the doing of noble deeds , they discover more nobleness in others . Raleigh's character was in its lowest nadir in the days of Voltaire and Hume . What shame to him ? For so were ...
... believe more in nobleness , and to gird up their loins to the doing of noble deeds , they discover more nobleness in others . Raleigh's character was in its lowest nadir in the days of Voltaire and Hume . What shame to him ? For so were ...
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... believe in the nobleness of others , is unable to become noble itself . As for the Alexander and Diana ' affectations , they were the language of the time and certainly this generation has no reason to find fault with them , or with a ...
... believe in the nobleness of others , is unable to become noble itself . As for the Alexander and Diana ' affectations , they were the language of the time and certainly this generation has no reason to find fault with them , or with a ...
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... believe it true ; to believe that there was , about his time , or a little before , somewhere about the upper Orinoco , a warlike community of women , ( Humboldt shows how likely such would be to spring up where women flee from their ...
... believe it true ; to believe that there was , about his time , or a little before , somewhere about the upper Orinoco , a warlike community of women , ( Humboldt shows how likely such would be to spring up where women flee from their ...
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... believe it , as one does also the other story of his having advised the lords to keep out James and erect a republic . Not that he could have been silly enough to propose such a thing seriously at that moment ; but that he most likely ...
... believe it , as one does also the other story of his having advised the lords to keep out James and erect a republic . Not that he could have been silly enough to propose such a thing seriously at that moment ; but that he most likely ...
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Página 60 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Página 204 - I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter ! — oh my daughter...
Página 315 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 154 - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Página 316 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 223 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Página 359 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Página 70 - I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 278 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 278 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!