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... attempt , and that anonymous and confessedly imperfect , should have been made to collect to- gether the Miscellaneous Works of a writer who has long taken his stand , both in verse and prose , as an English classic- " a man , " to use ...
... attempt , and that anonymous and confessedly imperfect , should have been made to collect to- gether the Miscellaneous Works of a writer who has long taken his stand , both in verse and prose , as an English classic- " a man , " to use ...
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... attempt to address the public in form . All his power of pleasing is damped by solicitude , and his cheerfulness dashed with apprehension . Impressed with the terrors of the tribunal before which he is going to appear , his natural ...
... attempt to address the public in form . All his power of pleasing is damped by solicitude , and his cheerfulness dashed with apprehension . Impressed with the terrors of the tribunal before which he is going to appear , his natural ...
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... attempting to fly . After some years of bondage , however , an opportunity of escaping offered ; he embraced it with ardour , and travelling by night , and lodging in caverns by day , to shorten a long story , he at last arrived in Rome ...
... attempting to fly . After some years of bondage , however , an opportunity of escaping offered ; he embraced it with ardour , and travelling by night , and lodging in caverns by day , to shorten a long story , he at last arrived in Rome ...
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... attempts to display all the little knowledge I had acquired by reading or ob- servation ; but I find myself regarded as an ignorant in- truder . The truth is , I shall never be able to acquire a power of expressing myself with ease in ...
... attempts to display all the little knowledge I had acquired by reading or ob- servation ; but I find myself regarded as an ignorant in- truder . The truth is , I shall never be able to acquire a power of expressing myself with ease in ...
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... attempted to castrate him- self ; but whether this be true or no , it is certain he was extremely whimsical . Though born to a large fortune , when employed in mathematical enquiries , he disregarded his person to such a degree , and ...
... attempted to castrate him- self ; but whether this be true or no , it is certain he was extremely whimsical . Though born to a large fortune , when employed in mathematical enquiries , he disregarded his person to such a degree , and ...
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Side 298 - 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...
Side 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Side 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Side 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Side 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Side 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Side 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...