Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4Scotzniovsky, 1858 |
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... give Mr. Cooper credit for - strong common sense . judge's charge could state the points at issue more clearly and forcibly . And pari passu with this common sense runs that common honesty which has of late grown very uncommon among us ...
... give Mr. Cooper credit for - strong common sense . judge's charge could state the points at issue more clearly and forcibly . And pari passu with this common sense runs that common honesty which has of late grown very uncommon among us ...
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... give suffrage ; that with speed I may these dis- cords end . What god soever I shall find endeavor to defend Or Troy or Greece , with wounds , to heaven he , shamed , shall reascend : Or ( taking him with his offence ) I'll cast him ...
... give suffrage ; that with speed I may these dis- cords end . What god soever I shall find endeavor to defend Or Troy or Greece , with wounds , to heaven he , shamed , shall reascend : Or ( taking him with his offence ) I'll cast him ...
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... give ear ; Hear our decree , and reverence what ye hear : The fix'd decree , which not all heaven can move ; Thou , Fate ! fulfill it ; and , ye powers ! approve ! What god but enters yon forbidden field , Who yields assistance , or but ...
... give ear ; Hear our decree , and reverence what ye hear : The fix'd decree , which not all heaven can move ; Thou , Fate ! fulfill it ; and , ye powers ! approve ! What god but enters yon forbidden field , Who yields assistance , or but ...
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... give the Trojans or Achaians aid , That god , with wounds disfigured , shall return , Or headlong , by my forceful arm be hurl'd To the deep gulf of gloomy Tartarus , Where , far remote , beneath the ground descends The dark abyss ; a ...
... give the Trojans or Achaians aid , That god , with wounds disfigured , shall return , Or headlong , by my forceful arm be hurl'd To the deep gulf of gloomy Tartarus , Where , far remote , beneath the ground descends The dark abyss ; a ...
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... give them time to go too far , may not be injurious , nay , may turn out a public benefit , by exciting a sort of patriotic emulation ; and if while all this is going on , the na- tion is enlightening and fashioning itself by really ...
... give them time to go too far , may not be injurious , nay , may turn out a public benefit , by exciting a sort of patriotic emulation ; and if while all this is going on , the na- tion is enlightening and fashioning itself by really ...
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Page 188 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost. And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open untD me.
Page 174 - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then stept she down thro...
Page 188 - ... font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.
Page 189 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Page 207 - Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Page 189 - ... whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who...
Page 174 - LOVE thou thy land, with love far brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Through future time by power of thought.
Page 45 - Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden, everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain ! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight!
Page 15 - With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 260 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.