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In the developement of the secret foldings of the heart , Lessing seems deeply
skilled , and the opening scenes of this tragedy contain some of those little
incidents that mark an intimacy with human nature , which genius alone can
claim .
In the developement of the secret foldings of the heart , Lessing seems deeply
skilled , and the opening scenes of this tragedy contain some of those little
incidents that mark an intimacy with human nature , which genius alone can
claim .
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His lordship , immediately , with his ever prompt kindness and humanity , desired
Mr . Oliver to enquire what was the object of his wish . Having learned , that he
was the pastor of a place forty miles distant , who had travelled thus far with his ...
His lordship , immediately , with his ever prompt kindness and humanity , desired
Mr . Oliver to enquire what was the object of his wish . Having learned , that he
was the pastor of a place forty miles distant , who had travelled thus far with his ...
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... but such are indifferently acquainted with human nature , who are not sensible
that men seldom reason about their debaucheries till they are committed ; reason
is but a weak antagonist when headlong passion dictates ; in all such cases we ...
... but such are indifferently acquainted with human nature , who are not sensible
that men seldom reason about their debaucheries till they are committed ; reason
is but a weak antagonist when headlong passion dictates ; in all such cases we ...
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It hath been said in its favour , that tive long acts is a portion of time sufficiently
long to keep the attention fixed on melancholy objects ; that human life has
enough of real , without calling in the aid of artificial distress ; that it is cruel to
send home ...
It hath been said in its favour , that tive long acts is a portion of time sufficiently
long to keep the attention fixed on melancholy objects ; that human life has
enough of real , without calling in the aid of artificial distress ; that it is cruel to
send home ...
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DIFFERENT VIEWS OF HUMAN NATURE . “ ALL , " says a certain writer , “ which
can be done by a wise man ( seeing that by nature he is appointed to act for the
space of 30 , 50 , or 70 years , some ridiculous silly part in this fantastic theatre ...
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF HUMAN NATURE . “ ALL , " says a certain writer , “ which
can be done by a wise man ( seeing that by nature he is appointed to act for the
space of 30 , 50 , or 70 years , some ridiculous silly part in this fantastic theatre ...
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Página 170 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 36 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 36 - Let Stanley charge with spur of fire — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice ? Hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Página 168 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
Página 169 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
Página 35 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 35 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Página 33 - NOVEMBER'S sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear : Late, gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen, You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble trill'd the streamlet through : Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen, Through bush and brier, no longer green, An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock and wild cascade, And, foaming brown with doubled speed, * Hurries its waters to the...
Página 6 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 167 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.