The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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... tion . You must either say , with Filmer and all high tories , that kings reign by a divine right , and all popular privileges are a concession from their good- ness ; or you must conclude , with Hooker and Locke , that all government ...
... tion . You must either say , with Filmer and all high tories , that kings reign by a divine right , and all popular privileges are a concession from their good- ness ; or you must conclude , with Hooker and Locke , that all government ...
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... tion and age . We leave to the divines , the sublime themes of theology ; we shall consider Hebrew poetry as an effort of Hebrew genius ; and we shall endeavor to compare its relative merits with the poetry of the west . The waters of ...
... tion and age . We leave to the divines , the sublime themes of theology ; we shall consider Hebrew poetry as an effort of Hebrew genius ; and we shall endeavor to compare its relative merits with the poetry of the west . The waters of ...
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... tion of the critics , that a good drama , is the highest effort of human genius ; and , perhaps , no man can give a faithful analysis of human nature , without ex- hibiting truths , from which a moral inference may be drawn . The great ...
... tion of the critics , that a good drama , is the highest effort of human genius ; and , perhaps , no man can give a faithful analysis of human nature , without ex- hibiting truths , from which a moral inference may be drawn . The great ...
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... tion , addressed to some evil principle dormant in his heart , which may be the root alike of virtues or vices , as the occasion may be . Accordingly , Macbeth is tempted by the powers of hell , and by his wife ; and both of them , with ...
... tion , addressed to some evil principle dormant in his heart , which may be the root alike of virtues or vices , as the occasion may be . Accordingly , Macbeth is tempted by the powers of hell , and by his wife ; and both of them , with ...
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... tion is grounded , not on religious principle , but on some compunctious visitings of nature . Even the good purposes that cross his mind rest upon no solid base ; they are the mere calculations of the same THE PURITAN . 53.
... tion is grounded , not on religious principle , but on some compunctious visitings of nature . Even the good purposes that cross his mind rest upon no solid base ; they are the mere calculations of the same THE PURITAN . 53.
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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.