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... whole attention to national objects . Mr. T. Townshend , now Lord Sidney , moved , That an humble address be presented to the king , expressing the wishes of the house , that his majesty would confer some signal and lasting mark of his ...
... whole attention to national objects . Mr. T. Townshend , now Lord Sidney , moved , That an humble address be presented to the king , expressing the wishes of the house , that his majesty would confer some signal and lasting mark of his ...
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... whole was finished , That they were “ very good . ” My sadness on the loveliest things Fell like unwholesome dew- The darkness that encompass'd me , The gloom I felt so palpably , Mine own dark spirit threw . Yet He was patient - slow ...
... whole was finished , That they were “ very good . ” My sadness on the loveliest things Fell like unwholesome dew- The darkness that encompass'd me , The gloom I felt so palpably , Mine own dark spirit threw . Yet He was patient - slow ...
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... whole with a due quantity of twice - two - are - four aphorisms , and with perpetual beggings of questions , after the most approved old fashion . But we , who are " pent up " in the Utica of a single half - sheet ( writers in fructu ) ...
... whole with a due quantity of twice - two - are - four aphorisms , and with perpetual beggings of questions , after the most approved old fashion . But we , who are " pent up " in the Utica of a single half - sheet ( writers in fructu ) ...
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... whole tribe . Law and physic are equally sententious and oracular ; and they both hem in their assertions with such phalanxes of “ ifs " and " buts , " as seldom fail to leave the consultor in greater doubt than before Yet , strange to ...
... whole tribe . Law and physic are equally sententious and oracular ; and they both hem in their assertions with such phalanxes of “ ifs " and " buts , " as seldom fail to leave the consultor in greater doubt than before Yet , strange to ...
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... whole- some advice is esteemed " flocci nauci nihili , " except as it is ac- companied by wholesome porridge ; and the naked truth is re- jected , unless for the sake of the decent clothing with which it is accompanied . This ...
... whole- some advice is esteemed " flocci nauci nihili , " except as it is ac- companied by wholesome porridge ; and the naked truth is re- jected , unless for the sake of the decent clothing with which it is accompanied . This ...
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Page 549 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 549 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 250 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 557 - Of breaking honesty:) horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners ? wishing clocks more swift ? Hours, minutes ? noon, midnight ? and all eyes blind With the pin and web,' but theirs, theirs only, That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing ? Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing; My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing.
Page 561 - ... with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert — but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but accident ! LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW OFTENTIMES at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams.
Page 561 - In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs — locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested — laid asleep — tranced — racked into a dread armistice...
Page 560 - Duncan,' and adequately to expound 'the deep damnation of his taking off,' this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature, ie the divine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man, - was gone, vanished, extinct; and that the fiendish nature had taken its place. And, as this effect is marvellously accomplished in the dialogues and soliloquies themselves, so it is finally consummated by...
Page 560 - But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion — jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred — which will create a hell within him ; and into this hell we are to look.
Page 27 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, "That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling and — embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and — draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time — when the table is full.
Page 417 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.