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... Heaven ! 104. Good friends ! What an eventful life was hers ! Sweet friends ! Let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny ! 105. Oh what a fall was there , my countrymen ! 106. Oh disgrace upon manhood ! It is strange ! It ...
... Heaven ! 104. Good friends ! What an eventful life was hers ! Sweet friends ! Let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny ! 105. Oh what a fall was there , my countrymen ! 106. Oh disgrace upon manhood ! It is strange ! It ...
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... heaven , oh how canst thou renounce and hope to be forgiven ! 137. Oh winter ! ruler of the inverted year ! thy scattered hair with sleetlike ashes filled , thy breath congealed upon thy lips , thy cheeks fringed with a beard made white ...
... heaven , oh how canst thou renounce and hope to be forgiven ! 137. Oh winter ! ruler of the inverted year ! thy scattered hair with sleetlike ashes filled , thy breath congealed upon thy lips , thy cheeks fringed with a beard made white ...
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... heaven . 165. Never before were so many opposing interests , passions , and principles , committed to such a decision . On the one side an attachment to the ancient order of things , on the other a passionate desire of change ; a wish ...
... heaven . 165. Never before were so many opposing interests , passions , and principles , committed to such a decision . On the one side an attachment to the ancient order of things , on the other a passionate desire of change ; a wish ...
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... heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; when not a breath disturbs the deep serene , and not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; around her throne the vivid planets roll , and stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; o'er the ...
... heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light ; when not a breath disturbs the deep serene , and not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; around her throne the vivid planets roll , and stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole ; o'er the ...
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... heaven , an offender far beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt . 182. Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose ; the spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; the point in dis- pute was , as all the world knows , to which the said ...
... heaven , an offender far beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt . 182. Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose ; the spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; the point in dis- pute was , as all the world knows , to which the said ...
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Page 130 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 24 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 135 - Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Page 116 - We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 63 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 110 - O, THOU ETERNAL ONE ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight ; Thou only God ! There is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! Mighty One Whom none can comprehend and none explore...
Page 33 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Page 115 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Page 136 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Page 126 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind. Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition.