The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, Volume 6 |
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... turned to literature and for many years was a contributor to Fraser's Magazine and the Westminster Review . He became rector of St. Andrews ( 1869 ) ; visited America , South Africa , and the Australasian colonies ; and in 1892 ...
... turned to literature and for many years was a contributor to Fraser's Magazine and the Westminster Review . He became rector of St. Andrews ( 1869 ) ; visited America , South Africa , and the Australasian colonies ; and in 1892 ...
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... Turning , then , to the tenure of land - for if we would understand the condition of the people , it is to this point that our first attention must be directed — we find that through the many complicated varieties of it there was one ...
... Turning , then , to the tenure of land - for if we would understand the condition of the people , it is to this point that our first attention must be directed — we find that through the many complicated varieties of it there was one ...
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... Turning , then , to the table of wages , it will be easy to ascertain his position . By the 3d of the 6th of Henry VIII . it was enacted that master car- penters , masons , bricklayers , tilers , plummers , glaziers , joiners , and ...
... Turning , then , to the table of wages , it will be easy to ascertain his position . By the 3d of the 6th of Henry VIII . it was enacted that master car- penters , masons , bricklayers , tilers , plummers , glaziers , joiners , and ...
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... turned to enmity and scorn : Their childish error when our weakness showed , They blushed at what their ignorance bestowed ; Fiercely they burnt with anger and with shame , To see their masters but of mortal frame . Disdaining cold and ...
... turned to enmity and scorn : Their childish error when our weakness showed , They blushed at what their ignorance bestowed ; Fiercely they burnt with anger and with shame , To see their masters but of mortal frame . Disdaining cold and ...
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... turned to this abhorred disgrace , To live the slave of this ignoble race ! Say , had thy soul no strength , thy hand no lance , To triumph o'er the fickle power of chance ? Dost thou not know that to the Warrior's name , A gallant exit ...
... turned to this abhorred disgrace , To live the slave of this ignoble race ! Say , had thy soul no strength , thy hand no lance , To triumph o'er the fickle power of chance ? Dost thou not know that to the Warrior's name , A gallant exit ...
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Page 2880 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek...
Page 2880 - Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, ' I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 2879 - Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she; in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain: Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train...
Page 2627 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 2878 - Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 2601 - When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. Shylock. My deeds upon my head ! I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond.
Page 2876 - Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 2876 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade, , And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
Page 2578 - Alas, poor Yorick! — I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 2877 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp and feast and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.