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... true solu- tion is sudden sunshine . Montesquieu was in the right , after all . Men are made by the climate . Their minds are , like their bodies , earth and water ; and laws and go- vernment have no more actual influ- ence on them ...
... true solu- tion is sudden sunshine . Montesquieu was in the right , after all . Men are made by the climate . Their minds are , like their bodies , earth and water ; and laws and go- vernment have no more actual influ- ence on them ...
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... true esti- mate is genius , not volume , ) though she neither forced the soil for them , nor extinguished her other products to fill the world with sonatas - yes , GREAT COMPOSERS . Some of these men are known but by a few melodies ...
... true esti- mate is genius , not volume , ) though she neither forced the soil for them , nor extinguished her other products to fill the world with sonatas - yes , GREAT COMPOSERS . Some of these men are known but by a few melodies ...
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... true his- tory of God save the King . The quarto had decided that Doctor John Bull was the composer . No man will deny that the song , if it ever had a composer at all , ought to have had one bearing this name . But see " how a plain ...
... true his- tory of God save the King . The quarto had decided that Doctor John Bull was the composer . No man will deny that the song , if it ever had a composer at all , ought to have had one bearing this name . But see " how a plain ...
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... true , terse , triumphant , and Toryish . " Here's a health to the King , who has said from his throne , That his heart is true English , as well as our own . " And the Church , fixed by law , is resolved to maintain Through the course ...
... true , terse , triumphant , and Toryish . " Here's a health to the King , who has said from his throne , That his heart is true English , as well as our own . " And the Church , fixed by law , is resolved to maintain Through the course ...
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... true Scottish gentleman of the old school- as true a one as ever kingly sword laid knighthood on ! As for Mr Thomson of Duddingstone , —perhaps after Turner , the finest landscape painter now extant - he is a highly accomplished member ...
... true Scottish gentleman of the old school- as true a one as ever kingly sword laid knighthood on ! As for Mr Thomson of Duddingstone , —perhaps after Turner , the finest landscape painter now extant - he is a highly accomplished member ...
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Page 344 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 396 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 157 - ... the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched.
Page 265 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 266 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 481 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good; I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Page 482 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Page 288 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Page 482 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 481 - No, I thank you; but, I pray, do us a courtesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt: it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine days since. MILK- WOMAN. What song was it, I pray? Was it, "Come, shepherds, deck your herds"? or "As at noon Dulcina rested"?