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... prodigal son , have the intended effect upon us ; they render the mean appearance of these wretches as despicable as poverty can make it , because it is said to spring from a course of deliberate iniquity . Such creatures were , in one ...
... prodigal son , have the intended effect upon us ; they render the mean appearance of these wretches as despicable as poverty can make it , because it is said to spring from a course of deliberate iniquity . Such creatures were , in one ...
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... prodigal son is alluded to again in As You Like It ; severe reproof is , how- ever , given by it in this instance ; petty tyranny could hardly be put in a more contemptible light . Thus , ACT I. SCENE I. OLIVER and ORLANDO , sons of SIR ...
... prodigal son is alluded to again in As You Like It ; severe reproof is , how- ever , given by it in this instance ; petty tyranny could hardly be put in a more contemptible light . Thus , ACT I. SCENE I. OLIVER and ORLANDO , sons of SIR ...
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... prodigal , fresh and new . " [ " Story of the prodigal . ” ] — “ Not many days after , the younger son gathered all together , and took his journey into a far country , and there wasted his sub- stance with riotous living . " And when ...
... prodigal , fresh and new . " [ " Story of the prodigal . ” ] — “ Not many days after , the younger son gathered all together , and took his journey into a far country , and there wasted his sub- stance with riotous living . " And when ...
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... prodigal . " ] -The story may be supposed to be delineated from the departure of the young man , including his excesses and want , to the period of his return , in abject misery , to implore a father's forgiveness . Falstaff is addicted ...
... prodigal . " ] -The story may be supposed to be delineated from the departure of the young man , including his excesses and want , to the period of his return , in abject misery , to implore a father's forgiveness . Falstaff is addicted ...
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... prodigal ; he that came behind you , sir , like an evil angel , and bid you forsake your liberty . Antip . of Syracuse . I understand thee not . " [ " The picture of old Adam new apparell'd . " ] — The allusion , says Theobald , is to ...
... prodigal ; he that came behind you , sir , like an evil angel , and bid you forsake your liberty . Antip . of Syracuse . I understand thee not . " [ " The picture of old Adam new apparell'd . " ] — The allusion , says Theobald , is to ...
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Page 88 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 153 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 152 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 63 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Page 124 - Let people serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 7 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Page 110 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.
Page 29 - O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin. More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Page 72 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; Banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins : but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish...
Page 75 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried ; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried, and said ; Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame.