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... seems , as to deny that we have been conin protection to their loveliness , to ducted by a most beneficent and have ordered that they , who are our most potent genius ? Nothing proves superiors in quickness and sensibility , to me so ...
... seems , as to deny that we have been conin protection to their loveliness , to ducted by a most beneficent and have ordered that they , who are our most potent genius ? Nothing proves superiors in quickness and sensibility , to me so ...
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... seems as though some violence had our profane English sailors , with yeo torn away the contiguous masses , ho yeo's , & c . but civilly and piously and left the rocks fractured in almost too , requesting the assistance of Sant ...
... seems as though some violence had our profane English sailors , with yeo torn away the contiguous masses , ho yeo's , & c . but civilly and piously and left the rocks fractured in almost too , requesting the assistance of Sant ...
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... seems to have been formed by an oranges , whose scented blossoms be- effusion of lava which , restrained by stow fragrance on every breeze : the the hills around , sank almost to a stately almond , the olive , and the fig level , and ...
... seems to have been formed by an oranges , whose scented blossoms be- effusion of lava which , restrained by stow fragrance on every breeze : the the hills around , sank almost to a stately almond , the olive , and the fig level , and ...
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... seems flashing from the fiery eye , And the proud nostril seems to strive for breath , As if the snorting steed , too strong to die , Had just been struck by lightning from the sky And changed to animated stone ; how striye The marble ...
... seems flashing from the fiery eye , And the proud nostril seems to strive for breath , As if the snorting steed , too strong to die , Had just been struck by lightning from the sky And changed to animated stone ; how striye The marble ...
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... seems to plead For something more than tears , pale Sorrow's wonted meed . 30 . Ah me ! I ween half sad must be this strain ; For relics rise at every step , to bring The recollection that earth's glory's vain , Which Time so soon o ...
... seems to plead For something more than tears , pale Sorrow's wonted meed . 30 . Ah me ! I ween half sad must be this strain ; For relics rise at every step , to bring The recollection that earth's glory's vain , Which Time so soon o ...
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Page 85 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 68 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 275 - Let it be so ; thy truth then be thy dower : For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be...
Page 597 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 249 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease; 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Page 597 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 646 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 408 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 174 - Soon after, I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy; and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horror than seems now to attend it.
Page 355 - Duncan," and adequately to expound "the deep damnation of his taking off," this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature, ie...