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... spirits , to encircle them with flames and horrors worthy of their crimes , to call forth from them shouts which ... spirit which it imprisons . The intensity of its fires reveals the intenser passions and more vehement will of Satan ...
... spirits , to encircle them with flames and horrors worthy of their crimes , to call forth from them shouts which ... spirit which it imprisons . The intensity of its fires reveals the intenser passions and more vehement will of Satan ...
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... spirit - broken . His L'Allegro proves that he understood thoroughly the bright and joyous aspects of nature ; and in his Penseroso , where he was tempted to accumulate images of gloom , we learn that the sad- dest views which he took ...
... spirit - broken . His L'Allegro proves that he understood thoroughly the bright and joyous aspects of nature ; and in his Penseroso , where he was tempted to accumulate images of gloom , we learn that the sad- dest views which he took ...
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... spirit . To be universally intelligible is not the highest merit . A great mind cannot , without injurious ... spirits . There are writings which are clear through their shallowness . We must not expect in the ocean the trans- parency of ...
... spirit . To be universally intelligible is not the highest merit . A great mind cannot , without injurious ... spirits . There are writings which are clear through their shallowness . We must not expect in the ocean the trans- parency of ...
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... spirit - of one whose eye looks inward rather than outward . " There can be little doubt as to which of the two characters he portrays was after Milton's own heart . He portrays L'Allegro with much skill and excellence ; but he cannot ...
... spirit - of one whose eye looks inward rather than outward . " There can be little doubt as to which of the two characters he portrays was after Milton's own heart . He portrays L'Allegro with much skill and excellence ; but he cannot ...
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... spirit tine and sweet - brier being the same plant , it is conjectured that by " twisted eglantine " Milton has reference to the honey - suckle . of spite against sorrow ; that is , 41. lively din . Compare with Grey's to spite sorrow ...
... spirit tine and sweet - brier being the same plant , it is conjectured that by " twisted eglantine " Milton has reference to the honey - suckle . of spite against sorrow ; that is , 41. lively din . Compare with Grey's to spite sorrow ...
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Page 349 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 206 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 304 - The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won, Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 16 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; 'tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament — Which pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, ' Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue.
Page 521 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 296 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 14 - Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
Page 249 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 292 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet, for a
Page 417 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.