Our Corner, Volume 1Annie Besant Freethought, 1883 |
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ACROSTIC Amoeba animals ANNIE BESANT answered beauty called Captain Goodrich Carlists cells CHARLES BRADLAUGH Chess color comedy CORNER cried delight Denison Dolet engine English ENIGMA eyes face fancy father feet Fleet Street Florence flowers Freethought garden Gastrula George Stephenson Gerald give hand head heard heart heredity hero horse Iolanthe King Ladislas Bolski lady Léon Gambetta Leslie Leycester Lievitz light living London look Lord LUDWIG BÜCHNER Mdme mind Miss Denison month mother never nolle prosequi once ovum Paine passed piece plants play Poland prizes PUZZLE Richardet round scene seed Shakspere side smile Stephenson tell thing Thomas Paine thought tion Toinon took Tronsko turn Victor Cherbuliez walked woman wood words young
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Page 135 - In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty...
Page 336 - Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
Page 133 - So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 135 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 132 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 134 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 350 - Farewell, dear flowers ; sweetly your time ye spent, Fit, while ye lived, for smell or ornament, And after death for cures. I follow straight, without complaints or grief ; Since, if my scent be good, I care not if It be as short as yours.
Page 135 - Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed...
Page 271 - The deed is done, And what may follow now regards not me. I am as universal as the light; Free as the earth-surrounding air; as firm As the world's centre. Consequence, to me, Is as. the wind which strikes the solid rock But shakes it not.
Page 135 - But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body, without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things, it were happy for the commonwealth, if our magistrates, as in those famous governments of old,, would take into their care, not only the deciding of our contentious law-cases and brawls, but the managing of our public sports and festival pastimes...