The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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Pagina 10
... less the approximation to perspicuity in particular cases . I speak of a fish , for example ; and I wish to include in that term , all the living creatures which inhabit the waters . But it may mean a large fish or a small one , a whale ...
... less the approximation to perspicuity in particular cases . I speak of a fish , for example ; and I wish to include in that term , all the living creatures which inhabit the waters . But it may mean a large fish or a small one , a whale ...
Pagina 13
... less value for broad maxims in politics and re- ligion , than some seem to put on them . I say not that they are useless ; but the light is so distant , as to shed very little radiance of any practical utility on my private and purblind ...
... less value for broad maxims in politics and re- ligion , than some seem to put on them . I say not that they are useless ; but the light is so distant , as to shed very little radiance of any practical utility on my private and purblind ...
Pagina 17
... less and less interested to acquire . You may tell her that it is a compound of animal and vegetable matter ; very well , the knowledge is of some importance ; it may teach her the source from which candles are derived , but hardly how ...
... less and less interested to acquire . You may tell her that it is a compound of animal and vegetable matter ; very well , the knowledge is of some importance ; it may teach her the source from which candles are derived , but hardly how ...
Pagina 45
... less striking on the public scene , than in the closet . With little faith , then , in the charms of the theatre , and still less in its utility as a school of morals , I cannot help seeing that the dramatic form is the most striking ...
... less striking on the public scene , than in the closet . With little faith , then , in the charms of the theatre , and still less in its utility as a school of morals , I cannot help seeing that the dramatic form is the most striking ...
Pagina 48
... less deserved ; That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine ! only I have left to say , More is thy due than more than all can pay . This testimony in his own favor , he is represented as receiving with great ...
... less deserved ; That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine ! only I have left to say , More is thy due than more than all can pay . This testimony in his own favor , he is represented as receiving with great ...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2 Leonard Withington Vizualizare completă - 1836 |
The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2 Leonard Withington Vizualizare completă - 1836 |
The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2 Leonard Withington Vizualizare completă - 1836 |
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Pagina 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Pagina 57 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Pagina 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Pagina 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Pagina 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Pagina 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Pagina 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Pagina 229 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Pagina 37 - Rocks, dens, and caves ! But I in none of these Find place or refuge ; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel...
Pagina 106 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.