Essays and Studies, Volume 8J. Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... called her ; the goddess that will not be shunned ! At the mill with slaves ! People , when they read it , do not appreciate the horror of the picture . Go on , my dear . It may be a question whether Polyphemus had mind enough to TRAGEDY ...
... called her ; the goddess that will not be shunned ! At the mill with slaves ! People , when they read it , do not appreciate the horror of the picture . Go on , my dear . It may be a question whether Polyphemus had mind enough to TRAGEDY ...
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... called it truly tragic . The reader , after reflection , will probably concur . The passage is taken from Doctor Thorne , and concerns a character whose position in the story is minor and incidental : it is little more than an episode ...
... called it truly tragic . The reader , after reflection , will probably concur . The passage is taken from Doctor Thorne , and concerns a character whose position in the story is minor and incidental : it is little more than an episode ...
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... called floda , and the other as small enough to be called bæc . It is not my intention to go into detail with regard to all the cases in which a bæc mentioned in Hamp- shire or Berkshire charters may be identified . Suffice it to say ...
... called floda , and the other as small enough to be called bæc . It is not my intention to go into detail with regard to all the cases in which a bæc mentioned in Hamp- shire or Berkshire charters may be identified . Suffice it to say ...
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... called ceaster by the Saxons . BURNA . The lexicons all give ' bourn ' or ' brook ' as the meaning of this term . In the charters it implies a stream of large size . There is , no trace in them of that later dialectal use of it ...
... called ceaster by the Saxons . BURNA . The lexicons all give ' bourn ' or ' brook ' as the meaning of this term . In the charters it implies a stream of large size . There is , no trace in them of that later dialectal use of it ...
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... called in the Tithe Award ' Castle Field ' , where ' castle ' is evidently a survival of the AS . ceastel . But the other cases of the use of this term in the charters suggest that it was applied to enclosures other than those formed by ...
... called in the Tithe Award ' Castle Field ' , where ' castle ' is evidently a survival of the AS . ceastel . But the other cases of the use of this term in the charters suggest that it was applied to enclosures other than those formed by ...
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Page 13 - Hath seal'd thee for herself ; for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled. That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Page 107 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 13 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady,, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 102 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 99 - Who mourns for Adonais? Oh come forth Fond wretch! and know thyself and him aright. Clasp with thy panting soul the pendulous Earth; As from a centre, dart thy spirit's light Beyond all worlds, until its spacious might Satiate the void circumference: then shrink...
Page 95 - BOTH. We saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Bright dawn of our eternal Day ! We saw Thine eyes break from their East, And chase the trembling shades away. We saw Thee : and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine Own sweet light.
Page 137 - Essay on the Principles of Human Action : being an argument in favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind.
Page 143 - ... soul has indeed remained in its original bondage, dark, obscure, with longings infinite and unsatisfied ; my heart, shut up in the prison-house of this rude clay, has never found, nor will it ever find, a heart to speak to ; but that my understanding also did not remain dumb and brutish, or at length found a language to express itself, I owe to Coleridge. But this is not to my purpose.
Page 16 - Clarissa." " Not read -Clarissa!'" he cried out. "If you have once thoroughly entered on - Clarissa ' and are infected by it, you can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General, and the Secretary of Government, and the Commander-in-Chicf, and their wives. I had - Clarissa...
Page 102 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.