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Page 93
... course ) , she would tell you , that it consisted in being gracefully ungraceful ; in running into a room full of company like a race - horse that has just bolted ; in throwing herself violently into an arm - chair , and sitting cross ...
... course ) , she would tell you , that it consisted in being gracefully ungraceful ; in running into a room full of company like a race - horse that has just bolted ; in throwing herself violently into an arm - chair , and sitting cross ...
Page 94
... course , unless she hopes , by continual practice , to verify the proverb , " Habit is second nature . " Now , from what I know of Laura's character , and hear of the character of naïveté , if it come at all , it will come only with ...
... course , unless she hopes , by continual practice , to verify the proverb , " Habit is second nature . " Now , from what I know of Laura's character , and hear of the character of naïveté , if it come at all , it will come only with ...
Page 95
... course , and fill my sail : I saw the orient God of Day Beam brightly o'er the wat'ry way ; I felt from far the Zephyr breeze That kiss'd the ripple of the seas . Such was the scene of joy on earth , Such was the day that saw my birth ...
... course , and fill my sail : I saw the orient God of Day Beam brightly o'er the wat'ry way ; I felt from far the Zephyr breeze That kiss'd the ripple of the seas . Such was the scene of joy on earth , Such was the day that saw my birth ...
Page 98
... course with breeze - like speed , To wade through every page of lore , Each duller than the one before . I've plumb'd the depths of Peter Bell ; Would I could fathom thine as well ; An innate " vis inertiæ " Hath borne me on through all ...
... course with breeze - like speed , To wade through every page of lore , Each duller than the one before . I've plumb'd the depths of Peter Bell ; Would I could fathom thine as well ; An innate " vis inertiæ " Hath borne me on through all ...
Page 123
... course Down went the rider and his horse , The helmet and the targe . Yet onward swept that eager throng , More rapid as it rush'd along , Nor deign'd to cast one glance below , On the red mass of friend and foe . Where are the lion ...
... course Down went the rider and his horse , The helmet and the targe . Yet onward swept that eager throng , More rapid as it rush'd along , Nor deign'd to cast one glance below , On the red mass of friend and foe . Where are the lion ...
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Page 64 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Page 189 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 43 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented...
Page 146 - For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 189 - And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again!
Page 126 - t be possible — of blood : Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul ; acknowledge what thou art, A wretch, a worm, a nothing ; weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night ; For seven days...
Page 125 - No, father; in your eyes I see the change Of pity and compassion; from your age, As from a sacred oracle, distils The life of counsel: tell me, holy man, What cure shall give me ease in these extremes ? Friar.
Page 188 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Page 104 - Every quarter of the city was illuminated ; the great temple shone with such peculiar splendour, that the Spaniards could plainly see the people in motion, and the priests busy in hastening the preparations for the death of the prisoners.
Page 157 - tis but a sound ; a name of air ; A minute's storm ; or not so much : to tumble From bed to bed, be massacred alive By some physicians for a month or two, In hope of freedom from a fever's torments, Might stagger manhood ; here, the pain is past 1 [Half a page omitted.] * [Two lines omitted.] Ere sensibly 'tis felt.