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... speak of him as a saint is a profanation of the word . " What his personal convictions may have been , in regard to the peculiar doctrines which he successively attacked and defended , it is impossible to determine . But we cannot doubt ...
... speak of him as a saint is a profanation of the word . " What his personal convictions may have been , in regard to the peculiar doctrines which he successively attacked and defended , it is impossible to determine . But we cannot doubt ...
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... speak . If pride was his , ' twas not their vulgar pride , Who , in their base contempt , the great deride ; Nor pride in learning , -though my Clerk agreed , If fate should call him , Ashford might succeed ; Nor pride in rustic skill ...
... speak . If pride was his , ' twas not their vulgar pride , Who , in their base contempt , the great deride ; Nor pride in learning , -though my Clerk agreed , If fate should call him , Ashford might succeed ; Nor pride in rustic skill ...
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... speak much like the West Somerseters , still hold themselves as our kinsmen , and the like- ness of the two tongues is well shown in their common saying : - Good butter and good cheese , Is good English and good Freese . Some of ...
... speak much like the West Somerseters , still hold themselves as our kinsmen , and the like- ness of the two tongues is well shown in their common saying : - Good butter and good cheese , Is good English and good Freese . Some of ...
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... speaking of his own deficience in conversation , used to say of himself , that , with respect to intellectual " . wealth , he could draw bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not a guinea in his pocket . " That he wanted current ...
... speaking of his own deficience in conversation , used to say of himself , that , with respect to intellectual " . wealth , he could draw bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not a guinea in his pocket . " That he wanted current ...
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... speak , the very light , refracted from a high damp - stained and time - stained house - wall , came trembling in , as if the fever which had shaken everything else there had shaken even it— there lay , in an old egg - box which the ...
... speak , the very light , refracted from a high damp - stained and time - stained house - wall , came trembling in , as if the fever which had shaken everything else there had shaken even it— there lay , in an old egg - box which the ...
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Page 321 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 325 - But here's a parchment, with the seal of Caesar, I found it in his closet, 't is his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 322 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 343 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 257 - As tho' to breathe were life ! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains ; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things : and vile it were For some three suns to store .and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 267 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 181 - So good, so noble, and so true a master ? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Page 316 - I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, Who else must be let blood, who else is rank : If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Caesar's death's hour ; nor no instrument Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich With the most noble blood of all this world.
Page 326 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 324 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...