College Requirements in English: For Careful Study, for the Years 1909-1915 ...Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896 |
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... human frailty . will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined to superstition . As I came into the House full of anxiety about the event ...
... human frailty . will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined to superstition . As I came into the House full of anxiety about the event ...
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... human race . You could at no time do so without guilt ; and be assured you will not be able to do it long with impunity . DUSTRIES . 1. COM- 17. But the population of this country , the great and II . THE IN- growing population , though ...
... human race . You could at no time do so without guilt ; and be assured you will not be able to do it long with impunity . DUSTRIES . 1. COM- 17. But the population of this country , the great and II . THE IN- growing population , though ...
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... human contrivances melt and die away within me . My rigor relents . I pardon something to the spirit of liberty . 4. OBJEC- TIONS TO THE EMPLOY- 31. I am sensible , Sir , that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the ...
... human contrivances melt and die away within me . My rigor relents . I pardon something to the spirit of liberty . 4. OBJEC- TIONS TO THE EMPLOY- 31. I am sensible , Sir , that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the ...
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... human art . We cannot , I fear , falsify the pedigree of this fierce people , and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates . The lan- guage in which they would hear you tell ...
... human art . We cannot , I fear , falsify the pedigree of this fierce people , and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates . The lan- guage in which they would hear you tell ...
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... humanity , not mild and merciful . ― 60. Perhaps , Sir , I am mistaken in my idea of an em- pire , as distinguished from a single state or kingdom . But my idea of it is this ; that an empire is the aggregate of many states under one ...
... humanity , not mild and merciful . ― 60. Perhaps , Sir , I am mistaken in my idea of an em- pire , as distinguished from a single state or kingdom . But my idea of it is this ; that an empire is the aggregate of many states under one ...
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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!