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... taste about it ; for it made the politician writhe and wince , and almost drove him beyond all pa- tience . Beyond the counter , at the fire - place , stood two celebrated law- yers , with their fore - fingers laid across , arguing a ...
... taste about it ; for it made the politician writhe and wince , and almost drove him beyond all pa- tience . Beyond the counter , at the fire - place , stood two celebrated law- yers , with their fore - fingers laid across , arguing a ...
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... taste for healthy viands which hunger in- duces , than that my mind should be the slave of the most degrading passions which can agitate the bosom of a hu- man being . It would , perhaps , be in vain now to expect , that judges should ...
... taste for healthy viands which hunger in- duces , than that my mind should be the slave of the most degrading passions which can agitate the bosom of a hu- man being . It would , perhaps , be in vain now to expect , that judges should ...
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... taste that they , like other men , were sub- ject to the natural infirmity of fear . No man likes to be devoured sudden- ly in the forenoon - and the question , in such a case , was not respecting the principles of poetical composition ...
... taste that they , like other men , were sub- ject to the natural infirmity of fear . No man likes to be devoured sudden- ly in the forenoon - and the question , in such a case , was not respecting the principles of poetical composition ...
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... taste , or from the question , was sure to draw down disapproval , and where no good saying ever missed observation and applause . If this do not assist in improving the taste , I know not what will . Of this I am certain , that I was ...
... taste , or from the question , was sure to draw down disapproval , and where no good saying ever missed observation and applause . If this do not assist in improving the taste , I know not what will . Of this I am certain , that I was ...
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... taste was sure to draw down disapproval !!!!!!!!! !!!!! " No doubt , even in the Forum , it was possible to go too far , and Hogg was , I know , often hissed . It is said , that even among apes and monkeys , there are rules of good ...
... taste was sure to draw down disapproval !!!!!!!!! !!!!! " No doubt , even in the Forum , it was possible to go too far , and Hogg was , I know , often hissed . It is said , that even among apes and monkeys , there are rules of good ...
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Page 353 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 94 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 282 - But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Page 94 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! _ . He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 290 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 94 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Page 94 - And where are they ? And where art thou ? My Country ! On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more. And must thy lyre, so long divine...
Page 94 - And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?
Page 95 - tis the hour of prayer ! Ave Maria ! 'tis the hour of love ! Ave Maria ! may our spirits dare Look up to thine and to thy Son's above ! Ave Maria ! oh, that face so fair ! Those downcast eyes beneath the Almighty dove — What though 'tis but a pictured image ? — strike — That painting is no idol, — 'tis too like.
Page 426 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...