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... starve the gods till they confessed What furies did oppress his sleeping soul . These plays went through two editions ; the last printed in 1656 . The following passage from a similar bard is as precious D 2 THE EARLY DRAMA . 35.
... starve the gods till they confessed What furies did oppress his sleeping soul . These plays went through two editions ; the last printed in 1656 . The following passage from a similar bard is as precious D 2 THE EARLY DRAMA . 35.
Strona 36
Isaac Disraeli. The following passage from a similar bard is as precious . The king in the play exclaims , By all the ancient gods of Rome and Greece , I love my daughter ! - -better than my niece ! If any one should ask the reason why ...
Isaac Disraeli. The following passage from a similar bard is as precious . The king in the play exclaims , By all the ancient gods of Rome and Greece , I love my daughter ! - -better than my niece ! If any one should ask the reason why ...
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... passages . Of Clarissa he says , " I yet remember with de- light the first time it came into my hands . I was in the country . How deliciously was I affected ! At every moment I saw my happiness abridged by a page . I then experienced ...
... passages . Of Clarissa he says , " I yet remember with de- light the first time it came into my hands . I was in the country . How deliciously was I affected ! At every moment I saw my happiness abridged by a page . I then experienced ...
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... passages of history are those in which we contemplate an oppressed , yet sublime spirit , agitated by the conflict of two terrific passions : implacable hatred attempting a resolute vengeance , while that vengeance , though impotent ...
... passages of history are those in which we contemplate an oppressed , yet sublime spirit , agitated by the conflict of two terrific passions : implacable hatred attempting a resolute vengeance , while that vengeance , though impotent ...
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... passages ; they generally liked best that which had been first composed . Hume was never done with corrections ; every edition varies with the preceding ones . But there are more fortunate and fluent minds than these . Voltaire tells us ...
... passages ; they generally liked best that which had been first composed . Hume was never done with corrections ; every edition varies with the preceding ones . But there are more fortunate and fluent minds than these . Voltaire tells us ...
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Strona 144 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Strona 160 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Strona 137 - The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind...
Strona 135 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Strona 283 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain. The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done.
Strona 154 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Strona 218 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strona 146 - Comedy will (I think) by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...
Strona 149 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Strona 153 - Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind, Like yon neglected shrub at random cast, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast.