Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1J. Murray, 1829 - 868 pages "...[A] calm exposition of [Southey's] mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library." -- DNB. |
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... received betimes The bias it hath kept . Poor Portugal , In us thou harbouredst no ungrateful guests ! We loved thee well ; mother magnanimous Of mighty intellects and faithful hearts , ... For such in other times thou wert , nor yet To ...
... received betimes The bias it hath kept . Poor Portugal , In us thou harbouredst no ungrateful guests ! We loved thee well ; mother magnanimous Of mighty intellects and faithful hearts , ... For such in other times thou wert , nor yet To ...
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... received , have been from that part of the world . It gives me indeed more pleasure than I can express , to welcome such travellers as have sometimes found their way from New England to these lakes and mountains ; men who have not ...
... received , have been from that part of the world . It gives me indeed more pleasure than I can express , to welcome such travellers as have sometimes found their way from New England to these lakes and mountains ; men who have not ...
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... receiving such a visitor ? MONTESINOS . I should not credit my senses lightly ; neither should I obstinately distrust them , after I had put the reality of the appearance to the proof , as far as that were possible . STRANGER . Should ...
... receiving such a visitor ? MONTESINOS . I should not credit my senses lightly ; neither should I obstinately distrust them , after I had put the reality of the appearance to the proof , as far as that were possible . STRANGER . Should ...
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... received their bias from the apparent accident of his premature death . MONTESINOS . I had fallen into one of those idle reveries in which we speculate upon what might have been . Lord Bacon describes him as 66 very studious , and ...
... received their bias from the apparent accident of his premature death . MONTESINOS . I had fallen into one of those idle reveries in which we speculate upon what might have been . Lord Bacon describes him as 66 very studious , and ...
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... received for authentic scripture ? My hopes are derived from the Prophets and the Evangelists . Believing in them with a calm and settled faith , with that consent of the will and heart and understand- ing which constitutes religious ...
... received for authentic scripture ? My hopes are derived from the Prophets and the Evangelists . Believing in them with a calm and settled faith , with that consent of the will and heart and understand- ing which constitutes religious ...
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Page 372 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Page 317 - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Page 77 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 2 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 97 - ... rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 385 - Is not this great Babylon, that I have built ... by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 231 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 296 - For as for witches, I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
Page 12 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Page 83 - You landlords, you rent-raisers, I may say you step-lords, you unnatural lords, you have for your possessions yearly too much. For that here before went for twenty or forty...