History of English Literature, Volumen1Chatto & Windus, 1871 |
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... voice and features , his gestures and his dress , distinct and complete as he from whom we have just parted in the street . Let us endeavour , then , to annihilate as far as possible this great interval of time , which prevents us from ...
... voice and features , his gestures and his dress , distinct and complete as he from whom we have just parted in the street . Let us endeavour , then , to annihilate as far as possible this great interval of time , which prevents us from ...
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... voice , the changes in his attitudes ; and that in order to judge of his intensity , his self- forgetfulness or his gaiety , his energy or his constraint . You consider his writings , his artistic productions , his business transactions ...
... voice , the changes in his attitudes ; and that in order to judge of his intensity , his self- forgetfulness or his gaiety , his energy or his constraint . You consider his writings , his artistic productions , his business transactions ...
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... voice , and repeats his foolish tales . ' Rain , wind , and surge leave room for naught but gloomy and melancholy thoughts . The very joy of the billows has in it an inexplicable restlessness and harshness . From Holland to Jutland , a ...
... voice , and repeats his foolish tales . ' Rain , wind , and surge leave room for naught but gloomy and melancholy thoughts . The very joy of the billows has in it an inexplicable restlessness and harshness . From Holland to Jutland , a ...
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... voices swelled under the vaulted roof . The monasteries themselves in Edgard's time kept up games , songs , and dances till midnight . To shout , to drink , to caper about , to feel their veins heated and swollen with wine , to hear and ...
... voices swelled under the vaulted roof . The monasteries themselves in Edgard's time kept up games , songs , and dances till midnight . To shout , to drink , to caper about , to feel their veins heated and swollen with wine , to hear and ...
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... voices . To this day , at this distance of time , separated as they are by manners , speech , ten centuries , we seem to hear them still : — ' The army goes forth : the birds sing , the cricket chirps , the war - weapons sound , the ...
... voices . To this day , at this distance of time , separated as they are by manners , speech , ten centuries , we seem to hear them still : — ' The army goes forth : the birds sing , the cricket chirps , the war - weapons sound , the ...
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Página 216 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 339 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 430 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 450 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página 337 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Página 218 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 337 - Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee ! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
Página 308 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Página 384 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Página 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.