The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price |
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... - ii . 3 . When we in our viciousness grow hard , ( O misery on't ! ) the wise gods seel2 our eyes ; w Reverberates . x Merits , or demerits . y Overlook . z Close up . In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; make MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 9.
... - ii . 3 . When we in our viciousness grow hard , ( O misery on't ! ) the wise gods seel2 our eyes ; w Reverberates . x Merits , or demerits . y Overlook . z Close up . In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; make MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 9.
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... grow alone In thews and bulk ; but as this temple waxes , The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal . 63 Guile . O , what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! 64 Hypocrisy . The devil can ...
... grow alone In thews and bulk ; but as this temple waxes , The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal . 63 Guile . O , what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! 64 Hypocrisy . The devil can ...
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... : Feast won - fast lost ; one cloud of winter showers , These flies are couch'd . 2 Profit . b Power of comprehension . 27 - ii . 2 . c Grow mouldy . 111 Silent Eloquence . Love , and tongue - tied MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 21.
... : Feast won - fast lost ; one cloud of winter showers , These flies are couch'd . 2 Profit . b Power of comprehension . 27 - ii . 2 . c Grow mouldy . 111 Silent Eloquence . Love , and tongue - tied MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 21.
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... grow great , great love grows there . 134 Adoption . ' Tis often seen , 36 - iii . 2 . Adoption strives with nature ; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds . 135 Patience and Cowardice compared . 11 - i . 3 . That ...
... grow great , great love grows there . 134 Adoption . ' Tis often seen , 36 - iii . 2 . Adoption strives with nature ; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds . 135 Patience and Cowardice compared . 11 - i . 3 . That ...
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... grow as terrible as storms . 141 Fickleness . 25 - iii . 1 . What our contempts do often hurl from us , We wish it ours again ; the present pleasure , By revolution lowering , does become The opposite of itself . 142 i The ill effects ...
... grow as terrible as storms . 141 Fickleness . 25 - iii . 1 . What our contempts do often hurl from us , We wish it ours again ; the present pleasure , By revolution lowering , does become The opposite of itself . 142 i The ill effects ...
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Page 397 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 120 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 130 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 62 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Page 380 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 39 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 239 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 113 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on.
Page 246 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 243 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...