College Requirements in English: For Careful Study, for the Years 1909-1915 ...Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896 |
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... passage through the legal channel stopped , with great violence broke out another way . Some provinces have tried their experiment , as we have tried ours ; and theirs has succeeded . They have formed a government sufficient for its ...
... passage through the legal channel stopped , with great violence broke out another way . Some provinces have tried their experiment , as we have tried ours ; and theirs has succeeded . They have formed a government sufficient for its ...
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... passages , and returned the sheets with an intimation that the paper might be cancelled , but should not be mutilated . Few editors would have been so forbearing as Jeffrey when so audaciously defied . He complained , but he acquiesced ...
... passages , and returned the sheets with an intimation that the paper might be cancelled , but should not be mutilated . Few editors would have been so forbearing as Jeffrey when so audaciously defied . He complained , but he acquiesced ...
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... passage . The success of the book was great and immediate , and altered the whole course of Burns's life . Dugald Stewart , the philosopher , entertained him at his house ; Henry MacKenzie , the novelist , gave him a flat- tering review ...
... passage . The success of the book was great and immediate , and altered the whole course of Burns's life . Dugald Stewart , the philosopher , entertained him at his house ; Henry MacKenzie , the novelist , gave him a flat- tering review ...
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... passage is suggested by a prose entry in Burns's Com- mon - Place Book ( April , 1784 ) , which serves as introduction to the poem Winter . The words in italics are from Psalm 104 . ful , boundless love ; what generous exaggeration of ...
... passage is suggested by a prose entry in Burns's Com- mon - Place Book ( April , 1784 ) , which serves as introduction to the poem Winter . The words in italics are from Psalm 104 . ful , boundless love ; what generous exaggeration of ...
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... passage quoted below , page 30. The present quotation may be from Richter ( compare p . 81 ) , in whom , according to Mr. Boynton , the figure is also frequent . any subject with the full collection of his strength , ESSAY ON BURNS . 13.
... passage quoted below , page 30. The present quotation may be from Richter ( compare p . 81 ) , in whom , according to Mr. Boynton , the figure is also frequent . any subject with the full collection of his strength , ESSAY ON BURNS . 13.
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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!