Prolusiones præmiis anniversariis dignatæ et in auditorio recitatæ scholæ Harroviensis1865 |
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... mean by suggesting lines that he thought might be amended , for I hardly ever wrote fifty lines together that I could not afterwards have improved , but by what appeared to me an implied censure on the whole , or nearly the whole quire ...
... mean by suggesting lines that he thought might be amended , for I hardly ever wrote fifty lines together that I could not afterwards have improved , but by what appeared to me an implied censure on the whole , or nearly the whole quire ...
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... means pure from the wickedness which everywhere surrounded them . Amidst or above this dark atmosphere there appeared one shining light . One man arose among a free and pastoral people , and taught a new religion . However far below the ...
... means pure from the wickedness which everywhere surrounded them . Amidst or above this dark atmosphere there appeared one shining light . One man arose among a free and pastoral people , and taught a new religion . However far below the ...
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... original sense of the English word . It would be going too far to consider it in this sense here , as doubtless , long before the time at which Gibbon wrote , " conversation " had come to mean only that part of intercourse which 44.
... original sense of the English word . It would be going too far to consider it in this sense here , as doubtless , long before the time at which Gibbon wrote , " conversation " had come to mean only that part of intercourse which 44.
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Harrow school. had come to mean only that part of intercourse which consists in the mutual exchange of thoughts by means of speech . But still we may get a useful hint here , as often , from our forefathers , if we bear in mind that the ...
Harrow school. had come to mean only that part of intercourse which consists in the mutual exchange of thoughts by means of speech . But still we may get a useful hint here , as often , from our forefathers , if we bear in mind that the ...
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... mean , and gain a general readiness and sharpness for action . What would society be without conversation ? By conversation we obtain the assistance of one another's advice ; by conversa- tion we look , as it were , into one another's ...
... mean , and gain a general readiness and sharpness for action . What would society be without conversation ? By conversation we obtain the assistance of one another's advice ; by conversa- tion we look , as it were , into one another's ...
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Page 36 - And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take: For ever and for ever farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
Page 20 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
Page 20 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 18 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Page 18 - Examine now said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Page 46 - His cloister'd flight ; ere, to black Hecate's summons, The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. Lady M. What's to be done? Macb. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, 'Till thou applaud the deed.
Page 46 - Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 44 - Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let The frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly : Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstacy.
Page 44 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 18 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination...