Temple Bar, Volume 39Ward and Lock, 1873 |
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... give . The very business of hoping would impart a zest to life . I determined to withdraw from London , and to surrender my days and nights to study . I would choose a spot where distraction would be impossible ; where fancy might ...
... give . The very business of hoping would impart a zest to life . I determined to withdraw from London , and to surrender my days and nights to study . I would choose a spot where distraction would be impossible ; where fancy might ...
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... give the power to Reason requisite to keep the Imagination in subjection . I must pay the penalty of seclusion , and must not complain if I find my mind growing distempered . Yet what could have evoked that face ? Such a countenance I ...
... give the power to Reason requisite to keep the Imagination in subjection . I must pay the penalty of seclusion , and must not complain if I find my mind growing distempered . Yet what could have evoked that face ? Such a countenance I ...
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... give life to the leaves of the geraniums on the balcony . The room was close . I opened the window and drank in the cool sweetness of the night . Would a stroll , I wondered , fatigue me and induce sleep ? The grounds stretched ...
... give life to the leaves of the geraniums on the balcony . The room was close . I opened the window and drank in the cool sweetness of the night . Would a stroll , I wondered , fatigue me and induce sleep ? The grounds stretched ...
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... give reality to its weird blank . And now I heard in the air a voice whose tones had before been shut out by the trees - the murmur of the sea . Though over two miles off , I could catch the beating of its mighty heart , could hear the ...
... give reality to its weird blank . And now I heard in the air a voice whose tones had before been shut out by the trees - the murmur of the sea . Though over two miles off , I could catch the beating of its mighty heart , could hear the ...
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... give over reading in those books for a little , and think more of your health . " " My reading won't injure my health , " said I , laughing . " But if you were to see a little company now " I shall have company soon , " I interrupted ...
... give over reading in those books for a little , and think more of your health . " " My reading won't injure my health , " said I , laughing . " But if you were to see a little company now " I shall have company soon , " I interrupted ...
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Page 187 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Page 195 - Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have...
Page 437 - Forthwith from every squadron and each band, The heads and leaders thither haste, where stood Their great commander ; godlike shapes, and forms Excelling human princely dignities, And Powers that erst...
Page 187 - And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed ; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 195 - Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 187 - Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 196 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 187 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 191 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 27 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!