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... glory a worthless phantom . Daring , in his view , is hot- brained folly . Danger is always to be avoided , and never to be sought . After feigning death at Shrews- bury , he thus soliloquizes : " Counterfeit ? I lie . I am no ...
... glory a worthless phantom . Daring , in his view , is hot- brained folly . Danger is always to be avoided , and never to be sought . After feigning death at Shrews- bury , he thus soliloquizes : " Counterfeit ? I lie . I am no ...
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... glory is for this man but shame , and shame the more burning for his genius . The end of Falstaff may stand as a type for the close of every such life . It was without regret and without honor . There is no life so melancholy in its ...
... glory is for this man but shame , and shame the more burning for his genius . The end of Falstaff may stand as a type for the close of every such life . It was without regret and without honor . There is no life so melancholy in its ...
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... the donor . When the lights went out upon the banquet , the man who threw the glory over it was no more remembered . But , when the frame sickened and the soul drooped , no royalty was at hand ; when the eye had FALSTAFF . 41.
... the donor . When the lights went out upon the banquet , the man who threw the glory over it was no more remembered . But , when the frame sickened and the soul drooped , no royalty was at hand ; when the eye had FALSTAFF . 41.
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... glory of their dinner tables . He was , in fact , a wit of all - work in aristocratic houses . He played , jested , conversed ; tried , by every device , to make himself generally useful to his entertainers , and he was not unsuccessful ...
... glory of their dinner tables . He was , in fact , a wit of all - work in aristocratic houses . He played , jested , conversed ; tried , by every device , to make himself generally useful to his entertainers , and he was not unsuccessful ...
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... glory and a joy which brightened the unpictured walls of the garret ; a sweetness of virtue on the hard , rough bed , which forsakes the couches of the proud . We recall also the hapless Richard Savage , strolling after midnight to the ...
... glory and a joy which brightened the unpictured walls of the garret ; a sweetness of virtue on the hard , rough bed , which forsakes the couches of the proud . We recall also the hapless Richard Savage , strolling after midnight to the ...
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Page 244 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.
Page 242 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 11 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 28 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfecT: image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Page 243 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 242 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Page 143 - We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick; unfound the boon — unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none the worst — For all are meteors with a different name, And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.
Page 231 - I have been a good deal abused in the news-papers for betraying the liberties of the people. God knows I had no thought for or against liberty in my head ; my whole aim being to make up a book of a decent size, that, as "Squire Richard says, would do no harm to nobody.
Page 231 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.
Page 29 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.