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... light from the wretched peasantry with whose ignorance their domination was bound up . It was felt that these things were an outrage on modern civilization ; and that they were heaping up to themselves a bloody retribution against the ...
... light from the wretched peasantry with whose ignorance their domination was bound up . It was felt that these things were an outrage on modern civilization ; and that they were heaping up to themselves a bloody retribution against the ...
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... happened unfortunately to cross the interests both of Austria and of England . From the papers that have seen the light we are able to admire the ingenuity with which the Eastern Question ' was treated , and FRANCE AND EUROPE . 25.
... happened unfortunately to cross the interests both of Austria and of England . From the papers that have seen the light we are able to admire the ingenuity with which the Eastern Question ' was treated , and FRANCE AND EUROPE . 25.
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... light of the maxim ' Is fecit cui prodest . ' The Emperor could afford to be com- pliant to the English in the conduct of that war . Its issue to him was comparatively unimportant . Whatever terms were ultimately agreed on his first ...
... light of the maxim ' Is fecit cui prodest . ' The Emperor could afford to be com- pliant to the English in the conduct of that war . Its issue to him was comparatively unimportant . Whatever terms were ultimately agreed on his first ...
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... light thing to have so often won the smile of the royal Elizabeth , to have tickled the fancy of the less critical James , to have secured the favour , perhaps the friendship , of the gracious Southampton , or to have com- manded for ...
... light thing to have so often won the smile of the royal Elizabeth , to have tickled the fancy of the less critical James , to have secured the favour , perhaps the friendship , of the gracious Southampton , or to have com- manded for ...
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... light of learning , but zealous for minute accuracy , and not negligent in pursuing it . He collated the ancient copies and rectified many errors . A man so anxiously scrupulous might have been expected to do more , but what little he ...
... light of learning , but zealous for minute accuracy , and not negligent in pursuing it . He collated the ancient copies and rectified many errors . A man so anxiously scrupulous might have been expected to do more , but what little he ...
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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...