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... noble air and graceful deportment ; her beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground , with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as ...
... noble air and graceful deportment ; her beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground , with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as ...
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... noble pleasure . If you would gain the favor of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must study to oblige them ; if you would be honored by your country , you must take care to ...
... noble pleasure . If you would gain the favor of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must study to oblige them ; if you would be honored by your country , you must take care to ...
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... noble mind ; of one who scorns deceit , because he accounts it both base and unprofitable ; and who seeks no disguise , because he needs none to hide him . Yo VI . - Benevolence and Humanity — IB . YOUTH is the proper season for ...
... noble mind ; of one who scorns deceit , because he accounts it both base and unprofitable ; and who seeks no disguise , because he needs none to hide him . Yo VI . - Benevolence and Humanity — IB . YOUTH is the proper season for ...
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... noble quality that could exalt human nature , and give a man the ascendant in society ; formed to excel in peace as well as war , provident in council , fearless in action , and executing what he had resolved with an amazing ce- lerity ...
... noble quality that could exalt human nature , and give a man the ascendant in society ; formed to excel in peace as well as war , provident in council , fearless in action , and executing what he had resolved with an amazing ce- lerity ...
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... noble confidence and say to yourself , " I have not these things , it is true ; but it is because I have not sought , because I have not desired them ; it is because I possess something better ; I have chosen my lot ; I am content and ...
... noble confidence and say to yourself , " I have not these things , it is true ; but it is because I have not sought , because I have not desired them ; it is because I possess something better ; I have chosen my lot ; I am content and ...
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Page 366 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, 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 350 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 236 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 362 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 261 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ! Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 359 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Page 249 - Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Page 367 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 342 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 351 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.