Miscellanies, Volumen1J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... human records ; but may not the secret of their success have been , that , on the whole ( though they found it a sore battle ) , they refused the evil and chose the good ? It is true , again , that their great deeds may be more or less ...
... human records ; but may not the secret of their success have been , that , on the whole ( though they found it a sore battle ) , they refused the evil and chose the good ? It is true , again , that their great deeds may be more or less ...
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... human ears ; he discussed it like a cool statesman in his pamphlet of 1596 , on ' A War with Spain . ' He sacrificed for it the last hopes of his old age , the wreck of his fortunes , his just recovered liberty ; and he died with the ...
... human ears ; he discussed it like a cool statesman in his pamphlet of 1596 , on ' A War with Spain . ' He sacrificed for it the last hopes of his old age , the wreck of his fortunes , his just recovered liberty ; and he died with the ...
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... human things do , and nothing is left but to bewail with Spenser ' The Ruins of Time ; ' the glory and virtue which have been the greater glory and virtue which might be even now , if men would but arise and repent , and work ...
... human things do , and nothing is left but to bewail with Spenser ' The Ruins of Time ; ' the glory and virtue which have been the greater glory and virtue which might be even now , if men would but arise and repent , and work ...
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... human being , namely , that she approved of such fine talk , as long as it was proved to be sincere by fine deeds ; but that when these were wanting , the fine talk became hollow , fulsome , a fresh cause of anger and disgust ? Yet ...
... human being , namely , that she approved of such fine talk , as long as it was proved to be sincere by fine deeds ; but that when these were wanting , the fine talk became hollow , fulsome , a fresh cause of anger and disgust ? Yet ...
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... human being : but if I am not to touch the popular talk about Essex in this tone , I can only touch it in a far sterner one ; and if ridicule is forbidden , express disgust instead . I have entered into this matter of Essex somewhat at ...
... human being : but if I am not to touch the popular talk about Essex in this tone , I can only touch it in a far sterner one ; and if ridicule is forbidden , express disgust instead . I have entered into this matter of Essex somewhat at ...
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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!