Miscellanies, Volumen1J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... consider our level ; to rationalize away all the wonders , till we make them at last impossible , and give up caring to believe them ; and prove to our own melan- choly satisfaction that Alexander conquered the world with a pin , in his ...
... consider our level ; to rationalize away all the wonders , till we make them at last impossible , and give up caring to believe them ; and prove to our own melan- choly satisfaction that Alexander conquered the world with a pin , in his ...
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... consider that this young Quixote is the close relation of two of the finest public men then living , Champernoun and Carew . That he is a friend of Sidney ; a pet of Leicester ; that he has left behind him at Oxford , and brought with ...
... consider that this young Quixote is the close relation of two of the finest public men then living , Champernoun and Carew . That he is a friend of Sidney ; a pet of Leicester ; that he has left behind him at Oxford , and brought with ...
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... consider as little better than a pirate , and that , too , in days when the noblest blood in England thought no shame ( as indeed it was no shame ) to enrich them- selves with Spanish gold . But so it is throughout this man's life . If ...
... consider as little better than a pirate , and that , too , in days when the noblest blood in England thought no shame ( as indeed it was no shame ) to enrich them- selves with Spanish gold . But so it is throughout this man's life . If ...
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... consider himself a very happy man if all that befalls to him thereby is what befel Essex , deprivation of his offices , and imprisonment in his own house . He is forgiven after all ; but the spoilt child refuses his bread and butter ...
... consider himself a very happy man if all that befalls to him thereby is what befel Essex , deprivation of his offices , and imprisonment in his own house . He is forgiven after all ; but the spoilt child refuses his bread and butter ...
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... consider to be a Nemesis . If to have found England one of the greatest countries in Europe , and to have left it one of the most inconsiderable and despicable ; if to be fooled by flatterers to the top of his bent , until he fancied ...
... consider to be a Nemesis . If to have found England one of the greatest countries in Europe , and to have left it one of the most inconsiderable and despicable ; if to be fooled by flatterers to the top of his bent , until he fancied ...
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Página 60 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Página 204 - I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter ! — oh my daughter...
Página 315 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 154 - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Página 316 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 223 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Página 359 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Página 70 - I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 278 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 278 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!