Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in Shakspeare, with Other Essays, &c |
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... means account for , and which seems to annul the idea of primitive community of species . We allude to the several forms of bodily apparatus which some animals possess , such as electric fishes , the poison of serpents , and also those ...
... means account for , and which seems to annul the idea of primitive community of species . We allude to the several forms of bodily apparatus which some animals possess , such as electric fishes , the poison of serpents , and also those ...
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... means loosed themselves from their parent plant , and that many other insects have in long process of time been formed from these , some acquiring wings , others claws , and others fins , from their ceaseless efforts to procure their ...
... means loosed themselves from their parent plant , and that many other insects have in long process of time been formed from these , some acquiring wings , others claws , and others fins , from their ceaseless efforts to procure their ...
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... means our author uses to go round and through his subject , and to present it in all its possible lights . Nothing is too high or too low , and all human life is interesting to him , whether in the pages of the Newgate Calendar or the ...
... means our author uses to go round and through his subject , and to present it in all its possible lights . Nothing is too high or too low , and all human life is interesting to him , whether in the pages of the Newgate Calendar or the ...
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... means that the greatest number is number one ; and the people are seeking for some Morrison's Pill Act of Parliament or remedial measure which they could swallow , one good time , and then go on in their old courses , cleared from all ...
... means that the greatest number is number one ; and the people are seeking for some Morrison's Pill Act of Parliament or remedial measure which they could swallow , one good time , and then go on in their old courses , cleared from all ...
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... means of seeing . " And if to us he is cloudy and obscure , rhapsodical and mystical , let us consider the fault may be in us and not in him ; and it would be well for those to reflect upon this who , though they have eyes , yet cannot ...
... means of seeing . " And if to us he is cloudy and obscure , rhapsodical and mystical , let us consider the fault may be in us and not in him ; and it would be well for those to reflect upon this who , though they have eyes , yet cannot ...
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Page 258 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 261 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Page 266 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 278 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 272 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 228 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 271 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 243 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state. she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 244 - ... my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o'...
Page 277 - And so I was; which plainly signified That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone.