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... written , as aforesaid , not long after the publication of the said folio copy of the year 1632 . 5. In the year 1811 , I attended each of a course of fifteen lectures given by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Shakespeare and Milton ...
... written , as aforesaid , not long after the publication of the said folio copy of the year 1632 . 5. In the year 1811 , I attended each of a course of fifteen lectures given by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Shakespeare and Milton ...
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... writing more wearisome ; but , in as much as we have not yet arrived at the period when people will be sensible of the absurdity of perse- vering in the present dilatory and complicated method , I have been obliged to conform to the ...
... writing more wearisome ; but , in as much as we have not yet arrived at the period when people will be sensible of the absurdity of perse- vering in the present dilatory and complicated method , I have been obliged to conform to the ...
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... written the same year in ink , I concluded , without farther inquiry , that that date was correct . At what remote period I wrote either the pencil figures , or those in ink , is not very material : suffice it to say , that I could have ...
... written the same year in ink , I concluded , without farther inquiry , that that date was correct . At what remote period I wrote either the pencil figures , or those in ink , is not very material : suffice it to say , that I could have ...
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... writing I have two of my short - hand books ( sheets of paper stitched together ) before me , which remained undecyphered from 1812 until 1854 , a period of forty - two years . During the whole time I did not know what had become of any ...
... writing I have two of my short - hand books ( sheets of paper stitched together ) before me , which remained undecyphered from 1812 until 1854 , a period of forty - two years . During the whole time I did not know what had become of any ...
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... writing . I present my notes merely as they are , doing , I know , great , injustice to the man and to the subject ... written . As a general rule I am strongly opposed to the publication of diaries , which usually contain observations ...
... writing . I present my notes merely as they are , doing , I know , great , injustice to the man and to the subject ... written . As a general rule I am strongly opposed to the publication of diaries , which usually contain observations ...
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Page 103 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O ! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Page 135 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 18 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page lxxiii - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page xcix - Who I, sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish; and the first letter of my name begins with L.
Page 135 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good, and market 1 of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more.
Page 135 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 13 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 1 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 53 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
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The Politics and Processes of Scholarship Joseph Moxley,Lagretta Tallent Lenker No preview available - 1995 |