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... feel also a personal satis- faction in having our tastes vindicated and our enjoyment treated as if it were a virtue , just as Mr. Pecksniff was pleased with the reflection that while he was eating his dinner , he was at the same time ...
... feel also a personal satis- faction in having our tastes vindicated and our enjoyment treated as if it were a virtue , just as Mr. Pecksniff was pleased with the reflection that while he was eating his dinner , he was at the same time ...
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... feel ( sir ) that I am falling into the dangerous Fit of a hot writer ; for instead of per- forming the promise which begins this Preface , and doth oblige me ( after I had given you the judgement of some upon others ) , to present my ...
... feel ( sir ) that I am falling into the dangerous Fit of a hot writer ; for instead of per- forming the promise which begins this Preface , and doth oblige me ( after I had given you the judgement of some upon others ) , to present my ...
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... feels that whatever may be the merits of Gondibert , Sir William Davenant is a gallant gentleman and worthy of his ... feel . We are made partners of their joys and sorrows . The first person singular is glorified by their use . 66 ...
... feels that whatever may be the merits of Gondibert , Sir William Davenant is a gallant gentleman and worthy of his ... feel . We are made partners of their joys and sorrows . The first person singular is glorified by their use . 66 ...
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... feeling for the benefit of posterity earns the right of making as magnani- mous a retort as that of any of Plutarch's men . He might well thank the gods for permitting him to furnish future generations with ample material for passing ...
... feeling for the benefit of posterity earns the right of making as magnani- mous a retort as that of any of Plutarch's men . He might well thank the gods for permitting him to furnish future generations with ample material for passing ...
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... feeling , relapsing into the vernacular of romance , " you gained access to me under the plea that you were going to please me ; and now that you have stolen a portion of my time , you throw off all disguise , and admit that you entered ...
... feeling , relapsing into the vernacular of romance , " you gained access to me under the plea that you were going to please me ; and now that you have stolen a portion of my time , you throw off all disguise , and admit that you entered ...
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Page 212 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 48 - Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Page 48 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 204 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 312 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 207 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall: And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...
Page 314 - Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 154 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 313 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 62 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.