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Page 182 - arms, And clustered round the mast; Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. * Whether any similar belief may legitimately and rightly arise from other grounds, is a totally different question. The
Page 116 - Pharisees went out to him, and were baptized, and all Jerusalem. And John had a garment of camel hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his meat was wild honey, the taste of which was of manna, or as a cake dipped in oil.*
Page 171 - it is very probable that something of this kind may have dropped out. Pet. How mean you this ? In Measure for Measure, Act i., sc. 4. Duke Now, as fond fathers Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch, Only to stick it in their children's sight, For terror, not to use; in time the rod
Page 94 - 476; Eurip., Fragm. ap. Plut. de Exilio; Herodot. III., 106. Milton, too, has not failed to notice this characteristic in his enumeration of the glories of Athens—Paradise Regained, bk. iv.: ' On the Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil.
Page 191 - is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special, or of the universal in the general; above all, by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal. It always partakes of the reality which it
Page 169 - This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art, For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit; But wise men folly-fallen quite taint their wit. I have no doubt that we should read— For he that folly
Page 171 - 2:— Cap Even such delight Among fresh female buds shall you this night Inherit at my house; hear all, all see, And like her most, whose merit most shall be : Which one more view of many, mine, being one, May stand in number, though in reckoning none. This is the reading of the folio, and it has been changed into,
Page 171 - I, it is difficult to know what is meant by part of Claudio's speech,— Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ? If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms.
Page 191 - renders intelligible ; and, while it enunciates the whole, abides itself as a living part in that unity of which it is the representative.'* Thus the true reason is sometimes said to behold realities immediately, sometimes through the medium of symbols, even as the understanding
Page 165 - tautologous line interpolated,— Pray be counsell'd; I have a heart as little soft as yours, But yet a brain that leads my use of anger ^To better vantage.' We can scarcely judge of the probability of the corrector's alteration, when it is set off by the foil of one so inappropriate as this, and which rests upon so little resemblance