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... Dead . He would gain much by this forbearance ; and surely it is not uncandid to say that he would lose but little . If the fire had purged away the major part of the poetry of the present Century , would it be any loss ? If nine tenths ...
... Dead . He would gain much by this forbearance ; and surely it is not uncandid to say that he would lose but little . If the fire had purged away the major part of the poetry of the present Century , would it be any loss ? If nine tenths ...
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... dead ; and the rest , disheartened by his death , took flight . Romeo had been seen so plainly to wound Thebaldo , that the homicide could not be concealed ; and the affair being brought before the Prince , all the Cappelletti demanded ...
... dead ; and the rest , disheartened by his death , took flight . Romeo had been seen so plainly to wound Thebaldo , that the homicide could not be concealed ; and the affair being brought before the Prince , all the Cappelletti demanded ...
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... dead , for Mantua ; having first desired the lady's servant , to report every thing he heard concerning her , to the Monk , and to obey all his orders with truth and fidelity , if he wished to receive the remainder of the reward ...
... dead , for Mantua ; having first desired the lady's servant , to report every thing he heard concerning her , to the Monk , and to obey all his orders with truth and fidelity , if he wished to receive the remainder of the reward ...
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... dead . Thou wilt doubtless , as if departed from this life , be deposited in the Vault ; and at a proper time , I will go and take thee out , and conceal thee in my cell , untill I attend the Chapter , which we are soon to hold at ...
... dead . Thou wilt doubtless , as if departed from this life , be deposited in the Vault ; and at a proper time , I will go and take thee out , and conceal thee in my cell , untill I attend the Chapter , which we are soon to hold at ...
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... with her hands crossed on her breast , awaited the operation of the medecine ; which failed not , in little more than two hours to render her like a dead person . The morning come , and the sun well risen , JULIETTA . 23.
... with her hands crossed on her breast , awaited the operation of the medecine ; which failed not , in little more than two hours to render her like a dead person . The morning come , and the sun well risen , JULIETTA . 23.
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Page 46 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear : Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 45 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 45 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 46 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page viii - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 231 - Le blason des armoiries de tous les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or...
Page 450 - Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects...
Page 363 - France ruinée sous le règne de Louis XIV, par qui et comment, avec les moyens de la rétablir en peu de temps...
Page 446 - Every reader of this journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Page 190 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . < To scorn delights, and live laborious days.