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... sound , contrary to our usual division and classification of them in ordinary speech , not unlike the sudden separation and re - union of the component parts of the machinery in a pantomime . The author who excels infinitely the most in ...
... sound , contrary to our usual division and classification of them in ordinary speech , not unlike the sudden separation and re - union of the component parts of the machinery in a pantomime . The author who excels infinitely the most in ...
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... sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude . Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question , in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cun ...
... sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude . Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question , in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cun ...
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... his flambeau Gave Ralpho o'er the eyes a damn'd blow . * * * * That deals in destiny's dark counsels , * And sage opinions of the moon sells . " by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum 72 [ LECTURE IIL ON COWLER , BUTLER , ETC.
... his flambeau Gave Ralpho o'er the eyes a damn'd blow . * * * * That deals in destiny's dark counsels , * And sage opinions of the moon sells . " by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum 72 [ LECTURE IIL ON COWLER , BUTLER , ETC.
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William Hazlitt. by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum - head , * by a pun upon one word , † and by splitting ... sounds as of images . ‡ There are as many shrewd aphorisms in his works , clenched by as many quaint and individual ...
William Hazlitt. by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum - head , * by a pun upon one word , † and by splitting ... sounds as of images . ‡ There are as many shrewd aphorisms in his works , clenched by as many quaint and individual ...
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... different noise Of horns and pans , and dogs and boys , And kettle - drums , whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub . " The widow , the termagant heroine of the poem , LECTURE III . ] 75 ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
... different noise Of horns and pans , and dogs and boys , And kettle - drums , whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub . " The widow , the termagant heroine of the poem , LECTURE III . ] 75 ON COWLEY , BUTLER , ETC.
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Page 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Page 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Page 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Page 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Page 193 - 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.