The Metropolitan, Volume 39James Cochrane, 1844 - English literature |
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... thought among the habitués of the crown office about the future . Mr. Kemmis , quiet gentleman ! took the matter with the proverbial languor of an experienced official . In the first flush of that triumphant arrest , he and all others ...
... thought among the habitués of the crown office about the future . Mr. Kemmis , quiet gentleman ! took the matter with the proverbial languor of an experienced official . In the first flush of that triumphant arrest , he and all others ...
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... thought or of language , which are now as rare as the blooming of the aloe - if his speeches had been aggregations of dull matters of fact - of insipid commonplaces blown out to the last degree of tenuity - scarcely tolerable in any ...
... thought or of language , which are now as rare as the blooming of the aloe - if his speeches had been aggregations of dull matters of fact - of insipid commonplaces blown out to the last degree of tenuity - scarcely tolerable in any ...
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... thought of , and inwardly discussed ; but the Queen had un- fortunately interposed her word , and what was done must therefore appear the result of accident ; for Anne , who in matters of state of the highest importance yielded almost ...
... thought of , and inwardly discussed ; but the Queen had un- fortunately interposed her word , and what was done must therefore appear the result of accident ; for Anne , who in matters of state of the highest importance yielded almost ...
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... thought worthy of being won , was attempted by putting in action all the machinery of leagues and counter - leagues , plots and counter- plotting , flattery and dissimulation ; and to baffle these , when directed against her liege lady ...
... thought worthy of being won , was attempted by putting in action all the machinery of leagues and counter - leagues , plots and counter- plotting , flattery and dissimulation ; and to baffle these , when directed against her liege lady ...
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... thought more kindly of his own poverty and humble garret . But it was not in the nature of Isoline to be long sad , or suffer sadness in others . She rallied her young friend on his rapid acquire- ments of the fashionable ...
... thought more kindly of his own poverty and humble garret . But it was not in the nature of Isoline to be long sad , or suffer sadness in others . She rallied her young friend on his rapid acquire- ments of the fashionable ...
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Page 17 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 376 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Page 17 - Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Page 376 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 145 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Page 246 - THE healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.
Page 27 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 122 - They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.
Page 47 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Page 87 - Voyages round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present Time...