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... death have laid in the dust Those breathing , moving , valiant multitudes ? Salone . And thou ! oh thou , that movest to the battle Even like the mountain stag to the running river , Pause , pause , that I may gaze my fill . M. Our ...
... death have laid in the dust Those breathing , moving , valiant multitudes ? Salone . And thou ! oh thou , that movest to the battle Even like the mountain stag to the running river , Pause , pause , that I may gaze my fill . M. Our ...
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... Death Uncomforted , leaving my ancient love With the Greek woman . I will rise and go Down into Troy , and , ere the stars come forth , Talk with the wild Cassandra , for she says A fire dances before her , and a sound Rings ever in her ...
... Death Uncomforted , leaving my ancient love With the Greek woman . I will rise and go Down into Troy , and , ere the stars come forth , Talk with the wild Cassandra , for she says A fire dances before her , and a sound Rings ever in her ...
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... death and horror in the face ! How should we know thy soul had been secured In honest counsels , and in way unbase , Hadst thou not stood to show us what thou wert By thy affliction that descried thy heart ! It is not but the tempest ...
... death and horror in the face ! How should we know thy soul had been secured In honest counsels , and in way unbase , Hadst thou not stood to show us what thou wert By thy affliction that descried thy heart ! It is not but the tempest ...
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... death ; The blood weeps from my heart , when I do shape , In forms imaginary , the unguided days And rotten times , that you shall look upon , When I am sleeping with my ancestors . For when his headstrong riot hath no curb , When rage ...
... death ; The blood weeps from my heart , when I do shape , In forms imaginary , the unguided days And rotten times , that you shall look upon , When I am sleeping with my ancestors . For when his headstrong riot hath no curb , When rage ...
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... death - bed is no lesser than thy land , Wherein thou liest in reputation sick ; And thou , too careless patient that thou art , Committ'st thy anointed body to the care Of those physicians who first wounded thee . A thousand flatterers ...
... death - bed is no lesser than thy land , Wherein thou liest in reputation sick ; And thou , too careless patient that thou art , Committ'st thy anointed body to the care Of those physicians who first wounded thee . A thousand flatterers ...
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aorist ARITHMETIC BALFOUR STEWART beauty BEGINNERS blood BOOK Cæsar cæsura Cambridge CHEMISTRY child CLASS-BOOK Clifton College cloth CONIC SECTIONS consonant crasis Crown 8vo death deeds diphthong dost doth earth ELEMENTARY TREATISE elided English Eton College EXERCISE Extra fcap eyes father fear four lines FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Globe 8vo glory gods GRAMMAR grief hand hath Head Master heart heaven HISTORY honour Introduction J. P. MAHAFFY JOHN RICHARD GREEN John's College king late Fellow LATIN Lecturer LESSONS Literal live LL.D London M.A. New Edition Maps Mathematical mind Notes noun numerous Examples numerous Illustrations Owens College Oxford partic preparation PRIMER PRODELISION Prof Professor PROSE R. C. JEBB revised and enlarged Royal School Second Edition Shakspeare short vowel Soph speak subs tears thee thine thou art thou hast thyself Translated Trinity College word ἐγὼ ἐκ ἐν μὴ ὄμμα οὐ πρὸς τὸ υδ
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Page 146 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me : In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. Th...
Page 112 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 147 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 127 - The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Page 148 - Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
Page 8 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 131 - I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd : How that might change his nature, there 's the question : It is the bright day that brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking.
Page 97 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 147 - Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair ? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous ; And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour...
Page 48 - They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— She was the universe.