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... whofe wrath to guard you from , ( Which here in this most desolate ifle else falls Upon your heads ) is nothing but heart's furrow , And a clear life enfuing * . Let us now proceed to the particular maxims and fentiments which occur ...
... whofe wrath to guard you from , ( Which here in this most desolate ifle else falls Upon your heads ) is nothing but heart's furrow , And a clear life enfuing * . Let us now proceed to the particular maxims and fentiments which occur ...
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... whofe influence If now I court not , but omit , my fortunes Will ever after droop . This paffage furnishes a prudent and neceffary reflection to the mind of the reader , that man's fuc- cefs in life often depends upon fome lucky and ...
... whofe influence If now I court not , but omit , my fortunes Will ever after droop . This paffage furnishes a prudent and neceffary reflection to the mind of the reader , that man's fuc- cefs in life often depends upon fome lucky and ...
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... whofe influence If now I court not , but omit , my fortunes Will ever after droop . This paffage furnishes a prudent and neçeffary reflection to the mind of the reader , that man's fuc- cefs in life often depends upon fome lucky and ...
... whofe influence If now I court not , but omit , my fortunes Will ever after droop . This paffage furnishes a prudent and neçeffary reflection to the mind of the reader , that man's fuc- cefs in life often depends upon fome lucky and ...
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... whofe unwished yoke My foul confents not to give fovereignty . SCENE II . Lyfander , the fuitor elect of Hermia , here makes an obfervation upon the state of love , which is too often verified in life : That a fympathy of affections ...
... whofe unwished yoke My foul confents not to give fovereignty . SCENE II . Lyfander , the fuitor elect of Hermia , here makes an obfervation upon the state of love , which is too often verified in life : That a fympathy of affections ...
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... whofe imagination and creative genius found even the extent of Nature too ftreightly bounded for it to move in ? Exhaufted worlds , and then imagined new . " Like an eastern monarch , his word was law , his will and pleafure edicts and ...
... whofe imagination and creative genius found even the extent of Nature too ftreightly bounded for it to move in ? Exhaufted worlds , and then imagined new . " Like an eastern monarch , his word was law , his will and pleafure edicts and ...
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Page 153 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 85 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power; And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 44 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 292 - That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 183 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 457 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Page 399 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 465 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 44 - ... palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 40 - Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.