The John-donkey, Volume 1G. Dexter, 1848 - Political satire |
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Page 264 - It must not be: if Cassio do remain, He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly...
Page 289 - Set you down this; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 157 - They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them : they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 341 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 320 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 13 - ... first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen...
Page 157 - And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Page 166 - Fire, — determined on constructing a world with him. His blood made the Sea; his flesh was the Land, the Rocks his bones; of his eyebrows they formed Asgard their Gods'-dwelling; his skull was the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds.
Page 166 - When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they sold toys for children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one.
Page 244 - Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore, Be sure of it ; give me the ocular proof ; Or, by the worth of mine eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my wak'd wrath.