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... genius be chofen for this employment , half from the inns of court , and half from the army , and be in- corporated into a fociety for five years , under the name of the SOCIETY OF COMMENTATORS . That great undertakings can only be ...
... genius be chofen for this employment , half from the inns of court , and half from the army , and be in- corporated into a fociety for five years , under the name of the SOCIETY OF COMMENTATORS . That great undertakings can only be ...
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... genius of our country And rides triumphant , while her captive fons Await bis nod , the filken flaves of pleasure , Or fetter'd in their fears.- Thus is that decent fubmiffion to our fuperiors , and that proper awe of authority which we ...
... genius of our country And rides triumphant , while her captive fons Await bis nod , the filken flaves of pleasure , Or fetter'd in their fears.- Thus is that decent fubmiffion to our fuperiors , and that proper awe of authority which we ...
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... written as appears by a man of parts " and genius ) the reft are abfolutely below a ferious notice . " Warburton's Preface to Shakspeare . E. NOTE I. ACT I. SCENE I , Enter three Witches Mifcellaneous Obfervatious on the Tragedy of Macbeth.
... written as appears by a man of parts " and genius ) the reft are abfolutely below a ferious notice . " Warburton's Preface to Shakspeare . E. NOTE I. ACT I. SCENE I , Enter three Witches Mifcellaneous Obfervatious on the Tragedy of Macbeth.
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... genius of his age , and the opinions of his contem- poraries . A poet who fhould now make the whole ac- tion of his tragedy depend upon enchantment , and pro- duce the chief events by the affiftance of fupernatural agents , would be ...
... genius of his age , and the opinions of his contem- poraries . A poet who fhould now make the whole ac- tion of his tragedy depend upon enchantment , and pro- duce the chief events by the affiftance of fupernatural agents , would be ...
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... genius is rebuk'd ; Anthony's was by Cafar . He chid the fifters , When first they put the name of king upon me , And bade them speak to him ; then prophet - like , They hail'd him father to a line of kings , Upon my head they plac'd a ...
... genius is rebuk'd ; Anthony's was by Cafar . He chid the fifters , When first they put the name of king upon me , And bade them speak to him ; then prophet - like , They hail'd him father to a line of kings , Upon my head they plac'd a ...
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Page 78 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 121 - It is yet in the power of a great people to reward the poet whose name they boast, and from their alliance to whose genius they claim some kind of superiority to every other nation of the earth; that poet, whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to reward him, not with pictures or with medals, which, if he sees, he sees with contempt, but with tokens of gratitude, which he, perhaps, may even now consider as not unworthy the regard of...
Page 76 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it"; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 247 - His opinion was, that men had only the appearance of animal life, being really vegetables with a power of motion; and that as the boughs of an oak are dashed together by the storm, that swine may fatten upon the falling acorns, so men are by some unaccountable power driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that vultures may be fed.
Page 384 - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Page 73 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 63 - ... 3. or take up any dead man, woman or child out of the grave, — or the skin, bone or any part of the dead person, to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm or enchantment; 4.
Page 246 - Since man is so big, said the young ones, how do you kill him ? You are afraid of the wolf and of the bear, by what power are vultures superior to man ? is man more defenceless than a sheep ? We have not the strength of man, returned the mother, and I am sometimes in doubt whether we have the subtilty; and the.
Page 545 - Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Page 96 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.