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... dead , Whom we , to gain our place , have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy [ agony ] - " Macbeth means , that his hands are so deeply stained with blood , that should he wash them in the vast ...
... dead , Whom we , to gain our place , have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy [ agony ] - " Macbeth means , that his hands are so deeply stained with blood , that should he wash them in the vast ...
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... dead shall be raised in - corruptible , and we shall be changed . " " And I saw the dead , small and great , stand before God ; and the books were opened , and an - oth - er book was opened , which is the book of Life ; and the dead ...
... dead shall be raised in - corruptible , and we shall be changed . " " And I saw the dead , small and great , stand before God ; and the books were opened , and an - oth - er book was opened , which is the book of Life ; and the dead ...
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... dead , and I will kill thee And love thee after . " " This is my testament , - I pray thee give it to a friend of mine , Who may inquire about me . " " The marriage temple was prepared , The virgins ' voices were sent up to heaven ...
... dead , and I will kill thee And love thee after . " " This is my testament , - I pray thee give it to a friend of mine , Who may inquire about me . " " The marriage temple was prepared , The virgins ' voices were sent up to heaven ...
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... dead , I thank you . " The phrase , " put out the light , " as , it first occurs , implies - blow out the lamp or candle . Where it is repeated , thus : " and then put out the light ; " it means , the light of life . A rhetorical pause ...
... dead , I thank you . " The phrase , " put out the light , " as , it first occurs , implies - blow out the lamp or candle . Where it is repeated , thus : " and then put out the light ; " it means , the light of life . A rhetorical pause ...
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... dead ; and the ark of God is taken . " When Eli was informed , that the Philistines had not only conquered Israel , and killed , among others , his two beloved sons ; but that they had taken " the ark of God , " for the safety of which ...
... dead ; and the ark of God is taken . " When Eli was informed , that the Philistines had not only conquered Israel , and killed , among others , his two beloved sons ; but that they had taken " the ark of God , " for the safety of which ...
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Page 111 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on...
Page 142 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 105 - Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 111 - That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 126 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 294 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...
Page 348 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 304 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 154 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Page 111 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.