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Page 76 - is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores; they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Page 76 - The Friar's statement that the "roses in thy cheeks and lips shall fade to paly ashes" would seem inconsistent with Romeo's soliloquy: Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks. And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Romeo and Juliet, v. 3. but when
Page 45 - stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender
Page 1 - of men that they were fair;" and "when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 76 - There is no soundness in my flesh; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. * * * My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness * * * my loins are filled with a loathsome disease; and there is no soundness in my flesh. * * * My lovers and friends stand aloof from my
Page 40 - the solemn words of the burial service: "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery." "In the midst of life we are in death.
Page 76 - this phial, being then in bed. And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humour, which shall seize Each vital spirit; for no pulse shall keep His natural progress, but surcease to beat: No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou
Page 53 - teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and
Page 99 - The gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world. Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind. Nor ever falls the least white star of snow. Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans. Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm!
Page 33 - was known to the world as the doctor on whom that well-known epigram was written: "For physic and farces, His equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, His physic a farce is." Hill wrote several farces, which were brought out on the stage, and very severely handled by the critics of .the day,