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Page viii
... perhaps most readily understand if he turn to No. 581 of this volume and consider what Mr. Clutton - Brock says of the essential qualities by virtue of which Prose differs from Verse . He hazards that while the cardinal virtue of Verse ...
... perhaps most readily understand if he turn to No. 581 of this volume and consider what Mr. Clutton - Brock says of the essential qualities by virtue of which Prose differs from Verse . He hazards that while the cardinal virtue of Verse ...
Page xv
... perhaps , had been convicts and ' left their country for their country's good ' . But what they felt is just what I could wish this book to recall to the breast of any gallant Englishman on outpost duty in fort or tent . outcasts . I ...
... perhaps , had been convicts and ' left their country for their country's good ' . But what they felt is just what I could wish this book to recall to the breast of any gallant Englishman on outpost duty in fort or tent . outcasts . I ...
Page 88
... perhaps believe me to be the man I am indeed , I must of necessity bewray myself to be that I am . I am Caius Martius , who hath done to thyself particularly , and to all the VOLSCES generally , great hurt and mischief , which I cannot ...
... perhaps believe me to be the man I am indeed , I must of necessity bewray myself to be that I am . I am Caius Martius , who hath done to thyself particularly , and to all the VOLSCES generally , great hurt and mischief , which I cannot ...
Page 92
... perhaps in time to come prove a notable Treasure for the multitude of volumes , an excellent benefit for the use and ease of students , and a singular ornament in the University ... Which is now as much as I can think on , whereunto ...
... perhaps in time to come prove a notable Treasure for the multitude of volumes , an excellent benefit for the use and ease of students , and a singular ornament in the University ... Which is now as much as I can think on , whereunto ...
Page 139
... perhaps the one is as painful as the other . He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood , who , for the time , scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth ...
... perhaps the one is as painful as the other . He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood , who , for the time , scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth ...
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Page 952 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Page 413 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Page 286 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 164 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 322 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand...
Page 467 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 163 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 224 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.
Page 212 - O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Page 357 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.