The Harvard Classics, Volumen39P.F. Collier & son, 1909 |
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... effect a safe return to my native country ; for , though I feel the affection which every man ought to feel for it , yet , under the existing circumstances , I regret not my re- moval from it . But I plead the cause of all the godly ...
... effect a safe return to my native country ; for , though I feel the affection which every man ought to feel for it , yet , under the existing circumstances , I regret not my re- moval from it . But I plead the cause of all the godly ...
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... effects it produces in many persons . For it is unfair to charge it with those evils which ought to be attributed to the malice of Satan . It is the native property of the Divine word , never to make its appearance without disturbing ...
... effects it produces in many persons . For it is unfair to charge it with those evils which ought to be attributed to the malice of Satan . It is the native property of the Divine word , never to make its appearance without disturbing ...
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... effect of frenzy , not of hope , seeing it is not truth , but opinion , that can travel the world without a passport . For were it other- wise ; and were there not as many internal forms of the mind , as there are external figures of ...
... effect of frenzy , not of hope , seeing it is not truth , but opinion , that can travel the world without a passport . For were it other- wise ; and were there not as many internal forms of the mind , as there are external figures of ...
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... effect ) have been defiled ; nor any drop of that innocent blood on the sword of his justice , with which the most that fore - went him have stained both their hands and fame . And for this Crown of England ; it may truly be avowed ...
... effect ) have been defiled ; nor any drop of that innocent blood on the sword of his justice , with which the most that fore - went him have stained both their hands and fame . And for this Crown of England ; it may truly be avowed ...
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... effect . But had the Duke of Parma in the year 1588 , joined the army which he commanded , with that of Spain , and landed it on the south coast ; and had his Majesty at the same time declared himself against us in the North : it is ...
... effect . But had the Duke of Parma in the year 1588 , joined the army which he commanded , with that of Spain , and landed it on the south coast ; and had his Majesty at the same time declared himself against us in the North : it is ...
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Página 310 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 217 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 261 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Página 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Página 322 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 220 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 301 - ... the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on...
Página 182 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 220 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
Página 173 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.