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... hope . The indignities awarded him can neither humble his erect spirit , nor cover his manifest in- tegrity with disgrace . That same night , too , a " Hymn to the Pillory " was proclaimed about the streets - a new and daring satire ...
... hope . The indignities awarded him can neither humble his erect spirit , nor cover his manifest in- tegrity with disgrace . That same night , too , a " Hymn to the Pillory " was proclaimed about the streets - a new and daring satire ...
Page 61
... hope for or enjoy . With a plaintive complacency he can say— No man has tasted different fortunes more , And thirteen times I have been rich and poor . Pondering over the manifold ill - usage he had re- ceived both from enemies and ...
... hope for or enjoy . With a plaintive complacency he can say— No man has tasted different fortunes more , And thirteen times I have been rich and poor . Pondering over the manifold ill - usage he had re- ceived both from enemies and ...
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... hope , " says he , " the reader will excuse the vanity of an officious old man , if , like Cato , I inquire whether or no I can yet do anything for my country ? " In all his latter years De Foe appears to have realized a reasonable ...
... hope , " says he , " the reader will excuse the vanity of an officious old man , if , like Cato , I inquire whether or no I can yet do anything for my country ? " In all his latter years De Foe appears to have realized a reasonable ...
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... hope it may turn out happily . But I should have been better pleased if Pisistratus had not made Dr. Ric- cabocca so reluctant a wooer . " " Very true , " said the captain ; " the Italian does not shine as a lover . Throw a little more ...
... hope it may turn out happily . But I should have been better pleased if Pisistratus had not made Dr. Ric- cabocca so reluctant a wooer . " " Very true , " said the captain ; " the Italian does not shine as a lover . Throw a little more ...
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... hope you like the wine , sir ? " 66 " Very good , and seems old . " I had in " Bottled these eighteen years , sir . the cask for the great election of Dashmore and Egerton . I have little left of it , and I never give it but to old ...
... hope you like the wine , sir ? " 66 " Very good , and seems old . " I had in " Bottled these eighteen years , sir . the cask for the great election of Dashmore and Egerton . I have little left of it , and I never give it but to old ...
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Page 219 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe : censure me in your -wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 303 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 13 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Page 277 - He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.
Page 60 - Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times — Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes.
Page 111 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 219 - Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
Page 223 - ... from the roots and the stem of the tree. Save that country, that you may continue to adorn it — save the Crown, which is in jeopardy — the Aristocracy, which is shaken — save the Altar, which must stagger with the blow that rends its kindred Throne!
Page 143 - Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.
Page 205 - Day by day when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.