Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary StudyHarper & brothers, 1888 - 638 pages |
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... thee . ” — Wordsworth . 24. Vision is the narration of past or absent scenes as though actually occurring before us . It is allied to and is often found associated with apostrophe . I. Byron's description of the Dying Gladiator- " I see ...
... thee . ” — Wordsworth . 24. Vision is the narration of past or absent scenes as though actually occurring before us . It is allied to and is often found associated with apostrophe . I. Byron's description of the Dying Gladiator- " I see ...
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... thee incongruous , wild , of rule and of reason defiant ; I in thy wildness a grand freedom of character find . So with irregular outline tower up the sky - piercing mountains , Rearing o'er yawning chasms lofty precipitous steeps ...
... thee incongruous , wild , of rule and of reason defiant ; I in thy wildness a grand freedom of character find . So with irregular outline tower up the sky - piercing mountains , Rearing o'er yawning chasms lofty precipitous steeps ...
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... thee : thou art come to answer A stony adversary , an inhuman wretch Uncapable of pity , void and empty From any dram of mercy . Antonio . I have heard Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify His rigorous course ; but since he ...
... thee : thou art come to answer A stony adversary , an inhuman wretch Uncapable of pity , void and empty From any dram of mercy . Antonio . I have heard Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify His rigorous course ; but since he ...
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... thee with my answers . Bassanio . Do all men kill the things they do not love ? Shylock . Hates any man the thing he would not kill ? Bassanio . Every offence * is not a hate at first . Shylock . What , wouldst thou have a serpent sting ...
... thee with my answers . Bassanio . Do all men kill the things they do not love ? Shylock . Hates any man the thing he would not kill ? Bassanio . Every offence * is not a hate at first . Shylock . What , wouldst thou have a serpent sting ...
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... thee ? Shylock . No , none that thou hast wit * enough to make . A * Duke . This letter from Bellario doth commend young and learned doctor to our court . Where is he ? To know your answer , whether you'll admit him . * Nerissa . He ...
... thee ? Shylock . No , none that thou hast wit * enough to make . A * Duke . This letter from Bellario doth commend young and learned doctor to our court . Where is he ? To know your answer , whether you'll admit him . * Nerissa . He ...
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Page 48 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 215 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 202 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 71 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 346 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 14 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him ; then burst his mighty heart ; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
Page 292 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 322 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost...
Page 297 - The years to bring the inevitable yoke. Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX.
Page 288 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet, for a