A Midsummer-night's Dream: With Introduction...Ginn & Company, 1897 |
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... delight in what is false and bad comes sponta- neously ; delight in what is true and good is the slow result of discipline and care , and grows by postponement of im pulse to law . I suspect it has been taken for granted much too ΙΟ ...
... delight in what is false and bad comes sponta- neously ; delight in what is true and good is the slow result of discipline and care , and grows by postponement of im pulse to law . I suspect it has been taken for granted much too ΙΟ ...
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... delight in that which is good is what sets the colours of it in the mind without this , the mind grows at odds with it . People cannot be droned or bored into virtue ; and if evil were made as tedious to them as good often is , I ...
... delight in that which is good is what sets the colours of it in the mind without this , the mind grows at odds with it . People cannot be droned or bored into virtue ; and if evil were made as tedious to them as good often is , I ...
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... delight pays tribute to use , and us to delight ; and there is no worse corruption of literature in the long run than where these are divorced , and made to pull in different lines . Such pleasure is itself uplifting , be- cause it goes ...
... delight pays tribute to use , and us to delight ; and there is no worse corruption of literature in the long run than where these are divorced , and made to pull in different lines . Such pleasure is itself uplifting , be- cause it goes ...
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... delight in what is both morally and intellectually mean and foul . It would not indeed be fair to charge our public schools with positively giving this preparation ; but it is their business to forestall and prevent such a result . If ...
... delight in what is both morally and intellectually mean and foul . It would not indeed be fair to charge our public schools with positively giving this preparation ; but it is their business to forestall and prevent such a result . If ...
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... delight in the conversation of books ; for this , as things now are , is essen- tial both to their moral health and also to their highest success in work ; to say nothing of their duties and interests as citizens of a republican State ...
... delight in the conversation of books ; for this , as things now are , is essen- tial both to their moral health and also to their highest success in work ; to say nothing of their duties and interests as citizens of a republican State ...
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Page 27 - Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage ; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Page 110 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 84 - True delight In the sight Of thy former lady's eye : And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be shown : Jack shall have Jill ; Nought shall go ill ; The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
Page 33 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 90 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 29 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 46 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 39 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 24 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 43 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.