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... that would still be an accurate description of its natural features , even after the
lapse of three centuries . Caves hewn in the living rock , a thick overshadowing
wood , sparkling springs , flowery meadows , mossy grottos , the river rolling over
...
... that would still be an accurate description of its natural features , even after the
lapse of three centuries . Caves hewn in the living rock , a thick overshadowing
wood , sparkling springs , flowery meadows , mossy grottos , the river rolling over
...
Page 88
... in the exact order of time , but in the more natural order of cause and effect .
Events would be made prominent , not according to their absolute political
importance , but as they were the result of high passions and fearful contests of
opinion .
... in the exact order of time , but in the more natural order of cause and effect .
Events would be made prominent , not according to their absolute political
importance , but as they were the result of high passions and fearful contests of
opinion .
Page 91
The luxuries of courts unfit him not for a relish of the charms of nature . The
fatigues of camps only prepare him for the enjoyment of banquets and dances .
He throws himself into the boisterous sports of the field at one moment , and is
proud to ...
The luxuries of courts unfit him not for a relish of the charms of nature . The
fatigues of camps only prepare him for the enjoyment of banquets and dances .
He throws himself into the boisterous sports of the field at one moment , and is
proud to ...
Page 96
The natural and easy dialogue between Bolingbroke and Northumberland
exhibits as much local accuracy in a single line as if the poet had given us a
laboured description of the Cotswolds :“ I am a stranger here in Glostershire .
These high ...
The natural and easy dialogue between Bolingbroke and Northumberland
exhibits as much local accuracy in a single line as if the poet had given us a
laboured description of the Cotswolds :“ I am a stranger here in Glostershire .
These high ...
Page 109
They held the oppressor in subjection to that power which results from the
cultivation , however misdirected , of the spiritual part of our nature . Whilst the
proud baron continued to live in the same dismal castle that his predatory fathers
had ...
They held the oppressor in subjection to that power which results from the
cultivation , however misdirected , of the spiritual part of our nature . Whilst the
proud baron continued to live in the same dismal castle that his predatory fathers
had ...
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Page 203 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 141 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 118 - I'll read, his for his love. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 240 - I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 129 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 243 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
Page 151 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 230 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 229 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 105 - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held...
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| Title | The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 7 Pictorial Shakspere The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Charles Knight |
| Publisher | C. Knight, 1851 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2008 |
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