Readings from the Best AuthorsArchibald Hamilton Bryce T. Nelson, 1869 - English literature |
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... strength of mind , and had little cause to love him , her misery was such that none of the bystanders could re- frain from weeping . He alone was unmoved . It was ten o'clock . Tower was ready . The coach of the Lieutenant of the ...
... strength of mind , and had little cause to love him , her misery was such that none of the bystanders could re- frain from weeping . He alone was unmoved . It was ten o'clock . Tower was ready . The coach of the Lieutenant of the ...
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... strength would soon have been unequal to such strains , he never failed to recall her words , and to reproach himself and calm himself . The only utterance with which he indulged his sorrow , was the frequent exclamation that his ...
... strength would soon have been unequal to such strains , he never failed to recall her words , and to reproach himself and calm himself . The only utterance with which he indulged his sorrow , was the frequent exclamation that his ...
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... strength , and longevity ; to multiply our organs of sense , and increase their capacity , in some cases , to thirty million times their natural power . This capacity of the mind is not a mere prospective possibility ; it is a fact , a ...
... strength , and longevity ; to multiply our organs of sense , and increase their capacity , in some cases , to thirty million times their natural power . This capacity of the mind is not a mere prospective possibility ; it is a fact , a ...
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... strength of a thousand horses is nerving his iron sinews . But his mas- ter reins him in with one finger , till the whole of some western village , men , women , children , and half their horned cattle , sheep , poultry , wheat , cheese ...
... strength of a thousand horses is nerving his iron sinews . But his mas- ter reins him in with one finger , till the whole of some western village , men , women , children , and half their horned cattle , sheep , poultry , wheat , cheese ...
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... strength by irresolution and inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance , by lying supinely on our backs , and hugging the delusive phantom of hope , until our enemies have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not ...
... strength by irresolution and inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance , by lying supinely on our backs , and hugging the delusive phantom of hope , until our enemies have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not ...
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Page 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 287 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 282 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 302 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roared ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I sink.
Page 301 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 132 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 243 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 207 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 128 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 88 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.