Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1S. C. Griggs, 1882 - English language |
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... better than a barbarian . Accord- ingly I have aimed at the golden mean , -a judicious union of facts and philosophy , of narrative and reflection , of objective description and subjective meditation . Color and form may be desirable to ...
... better than a barbarian . Accord- ingly I have aimed at the golden mean , -a judicious union of facts and philosophy , of narrative and reflection , of objective description and subjective meditation . Color and form may be desirable to ...
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... better than the vicious scepticism which would beggar us of the accumulated inheritance of ages by destroying belief in the evidence . They may , and doubtless do , contain germs of truth - left on the shifting sands as wave after wave ...
... better than the vicious scepticism which would beggar us of the accumulated inheritance of ages by destroying belief in the evidence . They may , and doubtless do , contain germs of truth - left on the shifting sands as wave after wave ...
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... better than bondage with fetters of gold . . . . Have the Heavens made us the ends of the world , and not assigned the end of our wrongs ? Or hath Nature , among all our free works , created us Britons only for bondage ? Why , what are ...
... better than bondage with fetters of gold . . . . Have the Heavens made us the ends of the world , and not assigned the end of our wrongs ? Or hath Nature , among all our free works , created us Britons only for bondage ? Why , what are ...
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... better come no more to Jotunheim ! ' Grim humor this , overlying a sublime , uncomplaining melancholy , — mirth resting upon sadness , as the rainbow upon the tempest . To this day it runs in the blood . Therefore , the one thing ...
... better come no more to Jotunheim ! ' Grim humor this , overlying a sublime , uncomplaining melancholy , — mirth resting upon sadness , as the rainbow upon the tempest . To this day it runs in the blood . Therefore , the one thing ...
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... better than our own , let us serve their God and worship Him . ' This is the profit - and - loss estimate — not yet extinct among us— of things divine , contracting the horizon of life within the narrow circle of material interests ...
... better than our own , let us serve their God and worship Him . ' This is the profit - and - loss estimate — not yet extinct among us— of things divine , contracting the horizon of life within the narrow circle of material interests ...
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Page 384 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire— why, it appeareth no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 381 - Pray do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward; Not an hour more, nor less : and to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 474 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 390 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 461 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 383 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 392 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee: Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not...
Page 276 - Almighty and most merciful Father ; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Page 382 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? 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...
Page 391 - 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.