College Requirements in English: For Careful Study, for the Years 1909-1915 ...Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896 |
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... father , an attorney , had destined him . Finding the law dry and irksome , he aban- doned its pursuit , and was compelled , by the withdrawal of his father's allowance , to devote himself to literature and politics . His two works ...
... father , an attorney , had destined him . Finding the law dry and irksome , he aban- doned its pursuit , and was compelled , by the withdrawal of his father's allowance , to devote himself to literature and politics . His two works ...
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... fathers , where I can neither wander nor stumble . Deter- mining to fix articles of peace , I was resolved not to be wise beyond what was written ; 1 I was resolved to use nothing else than the form of sound words , to let others abound ...
... fathers , where I can neither wander nor stumble . Deter- mining to fix articles of peace , I was resolved not to be wise beyond what was written ; 1 I was resolved to use nothing else than the form of sound words , to let others abound ...
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... father , James Carlyle , a man like Burns's father in his strength of char- acter and deeply religious temperament , but unlike him in his complete ignorance of all books except the Bible , Carlyle has himself left us a grand portrait ...
... father , James Carlyle , a man like Burns's father in his strength of char- acter and deeply religious temperament , but unlike him in his complete ignorance of all books except the Bible , Carlyle has himself left us a grand portrait ...
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... father , his lot was that of any poor peasant lad . But the elder Burns had a natural love of learning , attended carefully to his sons ' edu- cation himself , and , further , gave them as good schooling as it lay in his power to do ...
... father , his lot was that of any poor peasant lad . But the elder Burns had a natural love of learning , attended carefully to his sons ' edu- cation himself , and , further , gave them as good schooling as it lay in his power to do ...
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... father died , leaving his affairs in utter ruin . Three months before his death Robert and Gilbert had taken the farm of Mossgiel , in the neighboring parish of Mauchline , and thither the whole family now removed . The years 1785 and ...
... father died , leaving his affairs in utter ruin . Three months before his death Robert and Gilbert had taken the farm of Mossgiel , in the neighboring parish of Mauchline , and thither the whole family now removed . The years 1785 and ...
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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!