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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Page xi
... no one however can more sincerely wish that timid counsels may be proved by the event to have been wise ones ; that government may gain strength by yielding to menaces ; and that the Protestant Constitution of these kingdoms may be.
... no one however can more sincerely wish that timid counsels may be proved by the event to have been wise ones ; that government may gain strength by yielding to menaces ; and that the Protestant Constitution of these kingdoms may be.
Page 31
... gain head , it is as difficult to be stopt as a conflagration or a flood . The prevailing opinions of this age go to the destruction of every thing which has hitherto been held sacred . They tend to arm the poor against the rich ; the ...
... gain head , it is as difficult to be stopt as a conflagration or a flood . The prevailing opinions of this age go to the destruction of every thing which has hitherto been held sacred . They tend to arm the poor against the rich ; the ...
Page 67
... gain hardens the heart : the basest appetites have free scope there ; and the worst passions are under little restraint from law , less from religion , and none from public opinion . SIR THOMAS MORE . You have omitted in this ...
... gain hardens the heart : the basest appetites have free scope there ; and the worst passions are under little restraint from law , less from religion , and none from public opinion . SIR THOMAS MORE . You have omitted in this ...
Page 77
... gain from a public and general loss . " Again , said I , where is it ? I will speak boldly , I never knew great man grow greater by his depopulations , and I hope no man will say , he hath grown better by them . Corn - fields are turned ...
... gain from a public and general loss . " Again , said I , where is it ? I will speak boldly , I never knew great man grow greater by his depopulations , and I hope no man will say , he hath grown better by them . Corn - fields are turned ...
Page 97
... gains which were to be obtained by inclosures and sheep - farming , families were unhoused and driven loose upon the country . These persons , and they who were emancipated from villanage , or who had in a more summary manner ...
... gains which were to be obtained by inclosures and sheep - farming , families were unhoused and driven loose upon the country . These persons , and they who were emancipated from villanage , or who had in a more summary manner ...
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Page 329 - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Page 83 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 103 - ... 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 403 - ... io nacqui per lui; dove io non mi vergogno parlare con loro, e domandare della ragione delle loro azioni: e quelli per loro umanità mi rispondono. e non sento per quattro ore di tempo alcuna noia, sdimentico ogni affanno, non temo la povertà, non mi sbigottisce la morte, tutto mi trasferisco in loro.
Page 395 - Is not this great Babylon which I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 241 - 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 308 - 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 382 - 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 : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 403 - ... nelle antiche corti degli antichi uomini, dove da loro ricevuto amorevolmente mi pasco di quel cibo, che solum è mio, e che io nacqui per lui...
Page 61 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.