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... soon shown a clean pair of heels . " When the Egyptians first saw the disparted feet of a god by Daedalus , they chained the legs together lest it should escape : and Timæus accounts for the burning of the temple of Diana on the night ...
... soon shown a clean pair of heels . " When the Egyptians first saw the disparted feet of a god by Daedalus , they chained the legs together lest it should escape : and Timæus accounts for the burning of the temple of Diana on the night ...
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... soon hears the preludes of that festival . There is first a procession of a ludicrous kind . All sorts of actors and actings , grotesque and caricatured . Herb - women , clothed in white , now lead on the proper march , scattering their ...
... soon hears the preludes of that festival . There is first a procession of a ludicrous kind . All sorts of actors and actings , grotesque and caricatured . Herb - women , clothed in white , now lead on the proper march , scattering their ...
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... soon began to rise , her countenance opened in smiles , she soared from earth a pure and spotless thing , entered a star in which were kindred essences , until the vision disappeared . Wordsworth almost sings a similar strain , though ...
... soon began to rise , her countenance opened in smiles , she soared from earth a pure and spotless thing , entered a star in which were kindred essences , until the vision disappeared . Wordsworth almost sings a similar strain , though ...
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... soon strike the multitude with an obscure blind awe , and only the priests could interpret them . Then occurred the double temptation , avarice to make gain of them , and ambition to turn them into means of influence . As the most ...
... soon strike the multitude with an obscure blind awe , and only the priests could interpret them . Then occurred the double temptation , avarice to make gain of them , and ambition to turn them into means of influence . As the most ...
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... soon the dread and awe , which had held the human mind so long enslaved , were indignantly renounced . A new cause of fear , a new form of hostility , arose . A light had pierced and scared it . A power was moving over the minds of men ...
... soon the dread and awe , which had held the human mind so long enslaved , were indignantly renounced . A new cause of fear , a new form of hostility , arose . A light had pierced and scared it . A power was moving over the minds of men ...
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Page 192 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 217 - Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 405 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 34 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,...
Page 263 - When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
Page 153 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Page 48 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 207 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 213 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 214 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.