The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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... look , must make a new use of their eyes - they must be forced to weep . But though mind is sluggish in its movements , and it takes all the art of the poet to rouse it to its first attention , it must not be supposed that , when the at ...
... look , must make a new use of their eyes - they must be forced to weep . But though mind is sluggish in its movements , and it takes all the art of the poet to rouse it to its first attention , it must not be supposed that , when the at ...
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... look in vain for such terms as decorum , grace , legislation , magnanimity , or any other word that expresses the nicest shades of thought . Le Clerc , in relating the dogmas of the Pharisees , shows that they could not believe in the ...
... look in vain for such terms as decorum , grace , legislation , magnanimity , or any other word that expresses the nicest shades of thought . Le Clerc , in relating the dogmas of the Pharisees , shows that they could not believe in the ...
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... look again , and your attention will be arrested - a third time , and you will admire ; and once let the model impress your taste , and you will admire forever . It seems to me , for touching the deeper tones of the heart , the Hebrew ...
... look again , and your attention will be arrested - a third time , and you will admire ; and once let the model impress your taste , and you will admire forever . It seems to me , for touching the deeper tones of the heart , the Hebrew ...
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... look farther for true excellence , than external deeds ? Jealous of human nature , why need we pry , for true virtue , into its seminal principles in the heart of man ? There has been a tendency , ever since the world existed , to ...
... look farther for true excellence , than external deeds ? Jealous of human nature , why need we pry , for true virtue , into its seminal principles in the heart of man ? There has been a tendency , ever since the world existed , to ...
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... look well within , before he rejects a doctrine confirmed by their united testimony . * The vast superiority of Butler , to all other writers in spir- ituals and morals , has not , I think , been sufficiently noticed . As you read him ...
... look well within , before he rejects a doctrine confirmed by their united testimony . * The vast superiority of Butler , to all other writers in spir- ituals and morals , has not , I think , been sufficiently noticed . As you read him ...
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Page 50 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Page 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 57 - 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 41 - As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element Scowls o'er the darkened landscape snow or shower, If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet, Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Page 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Page 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Page 106 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.