College Requirements in English: For Careful Study, for the Years 1909-1915 ...Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896 |
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... ladies , all drawn together for the festivities of the night , not one of whom appeared willing to recognize him . The ... Lady Grizzel Baillie's pathetic ballad : 1 Lockhart ( chap . viii . ) devotes much time to confuting them . " His ...
... ladies , all drawn together for the festivities of the night , not one of whom appeared willing to recognize him . The ... Lady Grizzel Baillie's pathetic ballad : 1 Lockhart ( chap . viii . ) devotes much time to confuting them . " His ...
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... lady in a diamond stomacher and a long black hood . Her hand was applied in vain . The boy's features , which were originally noble and not irregular , were dis- torted by his malady . His cheeks were deeply scarred . He lost for a time ...
... lady in a diamond stomacher and a long black hood . Her hand was applied in vain . The boy's features , which were originally noble and not irregular , were dis- torted by his malady . His cheeks were deeply scarred . He lost for a time ...
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... lady's shoe . He would amaze a drawing - room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer . He would conceive an unintelligible aversion to a particular alley , and perform a great circuit rather than see the hateful place ...
... lady's shoe . He would amaze a drawing - room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer . He would conceive an unintelligible aversion to a particular alley , and perform a great circuit rather than see the hateful place ...
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... lady appeared to be a short , fat , coarse woman , painted half an inch thick , dressed in gaudy colors , and fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces which were not exactly those of the Queensberrys and Lepels.3 To Johnson ...
... lady appeared to be a short , fat , coarse woman , painted half an inch thick , dressed in gaudy colors , and fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces which were not exactly those of the Queensberrys and Lepels.3 To Johnson ...
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... lady died , in her sixty - fourth year . On her monument he placed an inscription extolling the charms of her person and of her manners ; and when , long after her decease , he had occasion to mention her , he exclaimed , with a ...
... lady died , in her sixty - fourth year . On her monument he placed an inscription extolling the charms of her person and of her manners ; and when , long after her decease , he had occasion to mention her , he exclaimed , with a ...
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Page 33 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek.
Page 64 - Witch Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Page 50 - 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 26 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 25 - 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 31 - s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 22 - Of direst cruelty ! Make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!