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... HEAVEN . No power or virtue of man could ever have de- served that , what has been fated , should not have taken place . Shakespeare ( " Henry VI . , " Part III . , act iv . sc . 3 ) says : - " What fates impose , that men must needs ...
... HEAVEN . No power or virtue of man could ever have de- served that , what has been fated , should not have taken place . Shakespeare ( " Henry VI . , " Part III . , act iv . sc . 3 ) says : - " What fates impose , that men must needs ...
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... heaven ; many a boy and girl have desired to pluck it ; when the same flower , plucked by some tiny hand , has lost its beauty , no boys or girls have desired it ; so is the virgin , while she remains so , while CATULLUS . 21 17.
... heaven ; many a boy and girl have desired to pluck it ; when the same flower , plucked by some tiny hand , has lost its beauty , no boys or girls have desired it ; so is the virgin , while she remains so , while CATULLUS . 21 17.
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... heaven . FICKLENESS OF WOMAN . The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly- passing stream . DIFFICULT TO RELINQUISH A CONFIRMED PASSION . It is difficult to give up at once a long ...
... heaven . FICKLENESS OF WOMAN . The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly- passing stream . DIFFICULT TO RELINQUISH A CONFIRMED PASSION . It is difficult to give up at once a long ...
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... herself , -that the qualities of his mind are given to him , if I may say so , by divine inspiration . Wherefore rightly does Ennius regard poets as under the special protection of heaven , because they seem to be 26 CICERO .
... herself , -that the qualities of his mind are given to him , if I may say so , by divine inspiration . Wherefore rightly does Ennius regard poets as under the special protection of heaven , because they seem to be 26 CICERO .
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Craufurd Tait Ramage. special protection of heaven , because they seem to be delivered over to us as a beneficent gift by the gods . Let then , judges , this name of poet , which even the very savages respect , be sacred in your eyes ...
Craufurd Tait Ramage. special protection of heaven , because they seem to be delivered over to us as a beneficent gift by the gods . Let then , judges , this name of poet , which even the very savages respect , be sacred in your eyes ...
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able bear beauty become begin better body born bring cause character close comes common danger death deeds delight desire divine earth effect enjoy everything evil expresses eyes fall fame fate favor fear feel follow fortune gift give given glory gods gold grief hand happy hast hath heart heaven honor hope human idea Italy kind king labor leaves less light live look Lord lost master means mind nature never night noble once pass passion peace pleasure poet poor possess praise present prosperity proverb punishment reason received regard riches Romans says Shakespeare short soul speaks spirit thee things thou art thoughts true truth turn virtue whole wicked wisdom wise wish wretched youth
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Page 644 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 548 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 555 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 568 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 348 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 242 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 233 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 131 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.