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... common felons in deep foetid dens , day and night for life without relief . Every one was disgusted at the narrow and brutalizing bigotry with which the priestly régime of the two southern courts struggled to stifle all progress and ...
... common felons in deep foetid dens , day and night for life without relief . Every one was disgusted at the narrow and brutalizing bigotry with which the priestly régime of the two southern courts struggled to stifle all progress and ...
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... common sense , can really wish for war , it is very difficult to believe . If he accepts it , it can only be because it is imposed upon him by the dangers of his position . We should rather pity his difficulties than blame him for choos ...
... common sense , can really wish for war , it is very difficult to believe . If he accepts it , it can only be because it is imposed upon him by the dangers of his position . We should rather pity his difficulties than blame him for choos ...
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... common action in which the indi- viduality and caprice of the numerous atoms may be merged . In internal affairs , the Zollverein and Pass - verein are a certain step in the right direction ; but in respect to foreign relations , no ...
... common action in which the indi- viduality and caprice of the numerous atoms may be merged . In internal affairs , the Zollverein and Pass - verein are a certain step in the right direction ; but in respect to foreign relations , no ...
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... common necessities trace out for us a common path . The frontiers of both are threatened by the same storm , and on the bearing of the two it will perhaps depend whether it is to burst at once in all its fury , or for the present pass ...
... common necessities trace out for us a common path . The frontiers of both are threatened by the same storm , and on the bearing of the two it will perhaps depend whether it is to burst at once in all its fury , or for the present pass ...
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... common , and in full measure with the Greek dramatic poets . We are inclined to consider the Greek scholiasts , as a body , the most vapid and ignorant of mankind . Cowper , when engaged in translating Homer , complains heavily of the ...
... common , and in full measure with the Greek dramatic poets . We are inclined to consider the Greek scholiasts , as a body , the most vapid and ignorant of mankind . Cowper , when engaged in translating Homer , complains heavily of the ...
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Page 165 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Page 58 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 193 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Page 227 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Page 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Page 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Page 189 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea...