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Page 66 - O! why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine j Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 59 - Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet.
Page 437 - Where'er thy Navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings ; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred and consent to fear. So Jove from Ida did both hosts survey, And when he pleas'd to thunder part the fray ; Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped, The mightiest still upon the smallest fed,
Page 12 - it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 185 - Gentleman has traded on the ideas and intelligence of others. His life has been one great appropriation clause. He is a burglar of others' intellect. Search the Index of Beatson, from the days of the Conqueror to the termination of the last reign, there is no statesman who has committed political petty larceny on so great a scale.
Page 73 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 439 - Nought's a trouble from duty that springs, For my heart is my Poll's, and my rhino's my friend's, And as for my life, 'tis the king's : Even when my time comes, ne'er believe me so soft As for grief to be taken aback, For the same little cherub that sits up aloft Will look out a good berth for poor Jack.
Page 28 - Our primary duty is, not to introduce a system which under the specious cloak of free institutions, will enable a small minority of natives to misgovern their countrymen, but to establish one which will enable the mass of the population to be governed according to the code of Christian morality...
Page 437 - tis my lot. While the surgeon dress'd his wounds, Thus he said, thus he said, While the surgeon dress'd his wounds, thus he said : Let my cradle now in haste, On the quarter-deck be placed, That my enemies I may face Till I'm dead, till I'm dead.
Page 53 - ... the grotesque. But these characters, with all their variations, will go beyond their source and their ideal only as the rays of light go beyond the sun. Humanity, as it passes through phase after phase of the historical movement, may advance indefinitely in excellence; but its advance will be an indefinite approximation to the Christian Type. A divergence from that type, to whatever extent it may take place, will not be progress, but debasement and corruption. In a moral point of view, in short,...