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... lady , in a little book called " Advice to the Ladies , " would be found impracticable . For , sav- ing my respect to the sex , the levity which perhaps is a little peculiar to them ( at least in their youth ) will not bear the re ...
... lady , in a little book called " Advice to the Ladies , " would be found impracticable . For , sav- ing my respect to the sex , the levity which perhaps is a little peculiar to them ( at least in their youth ) will not bear the re ...
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... expressed and made sensible . Another world has stepped in ; and the murderers are taken out of the region of human things , human purposes , human desires . They are transfigured : Lady Macbeth is THOMAS DE QUINCEY 1305.
... expressed and made sensible . Another world has stepped in ; and the murderers are taken out of the region of human things , human purposes , human desires . They are transfigured : Lady Macbeth is THOMAS DE QUINCEY 1305.
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... Lady Macbeth is “ un- sexed " ; Macbeth has forgot that he was born of woman ; both are conformed to the image of devils ; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed . But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable ? In order that a ...
... Lady Macbeth is “ un- sexed " ; Macbeth has forgot that he was born of woman ; both are conformed to the image of devils ; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed . But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable ? In order that a ...
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... lady sometimes comes and drinks tea with us ; at her request and M.'s , I now and then read Wordsworth's poems to them . ( W. , by the by , is the only poet I ever met who could read his own verses ; often , indeed , he reads admirably ...
... lady sometimes comes and drinks tea with us ; at her request and M.'s , I now and then read Wordsworth's poems to them . ( W. , by the by , is the only poet I ever met who could read his own verses ; often , indeed , he reads admirably ...
Side 1310
... lady's fan . At length , in 1819 , a friend in Edinburgh sent me down Mr. Ricardo's book ; and , re- curring to my own prophetic anticipation of the advent of some legislator for this science , I said , before I had finished the first ...
... lady's fan . At length , in 1819 , a friend in Edinburgh sent me down Mr. Ricardo's book ; and , re- curring to my own prophetic anticipation of the advent of some legislator for this science , I said , before I had finished the first ...
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Side 1615 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Side 1490 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Side 1398 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Side 1305 - Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these.
Side 1376 - And the star was shining. He grew to be a man whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears when the star opened once again. Said his sister's angel to the leader, "Is my brother come?" And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter.
Side 1450 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Side 1490 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Side 1615 - ... which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught...
Side 1599 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Side 1616 - The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.