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... tell home . The missing a single time is fatal , and undoes the spell . We see how difficult it is to sustain a continued flight of im- pressive sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into ...
... tell home . The missing a single time is fatal , and undoes the spell . We see how difficult it is to sustain a continued flight of im- pressive sentiment : how easy it must be then to travestie or burlesque it , to flounder into ...
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... telling home truths in the most unexpected manner . In this sense Ęsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another ...
... telling home truths in the most unexpected manner . In this sense Ęsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another ...
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... tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexpli- cable , being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth ...
... tell how . Its ways are unaccountable and inexpli- cable , being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language . It is , in short , a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way ( such as reason teacheth ...
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... tell for more or less , are good , bad , or indifferent , as they have more or less excellence of a kind common to them with others but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ; they are a new power in ...
... tell for more or less , are good , bad , or indifferent , as they have more or less excellence of a kind common to them with others but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ; they are a new power in ...
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... tell thee , Dauphine ? Why , all their actions are governed by crude opinion , without reason or cause ; they know not why they do anything ; but , as they are informed , believe , judge , praise , condemn , love , hate , and in ...
... tell thee , Dauphine ? Why , all their actions are governed by crude opinion , without reason or cause ; they know not why they do anything ; but , as they are informed , believe , judge , praise , condemn , love , hate , and in ...
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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.