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... Ambition ? 13. Is Ambition a Vice or a Virtue ? 14. Has Novel - reading a Moral Tendency ? 15. Is the Character of Queen Elizabeth deserving of our Admiration ? 268 268 · 269 269 269 270 - - 270 - 270 16. Is England rising or falling as ...
... Ambition ? 13. Is Ambition a Vice or a Virtue ? 14. Has Novel - reading a Moral Tendency ? 15. Is the Character of Queen Elizabeth deserving of our Admiration ? 268 268 · 269 269 269 270 - - 270 - 270 16. Is England rising or falling as ...
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... ambitions . I call to mind what our own great Statesmen have done for this country ; how they have led it through perils of war and revolution that seemed overwhelming , and in de- fiance of all , have established its prosperity upon a ...
... ambitions . I call to mind what our own great Statesmen have done for this country ; how they have led it through perils of war and revolution that seemed overwhelming , and in de- fiance of all , have established its prosperity upon a ...
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... our souls would become stu- pified and lost in the perplexing cares and sordid ambitions of the world : but as it is , the Poet continually reminds us of our great and lofty destiny , and so leads us more nobly to fulfil 8 THE DEBATER .
... our souls would become stu- pified and lost in the perplexing cares and sordid ambitions of the world : but as it is , the Poet continually reminds us of our great and lofty destiny , and so leads us more nobly to fulfil 8 THE DEBATER .
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... ambition , and enter into the beautiful realm of the Ideal . Our eyes and hearts are there feasted with purity , loftiness and heroism , and we are beckoned by the models of goodness there displayed , to tread with them the paths of ...
... ambition , and enter into the beautiful realm of the Ideal . Our eyes and hearts are there feasted with purity , loftiness and heroism , and we are beckoned by the models of goodness there displayed , to tread with them the paths of ...
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... , accomplished villains , stoics , chivalric blood- stained knights , and so forth . The sentiments they utter are " ambition , " " renown , " " honour , " " war , " brute " courage , " and HAS THE STAGE A MORAL TENDENCY ? 103.
... , accomplished villains , stoics , chivalric blood- stained knights , and so forth . The sentiments they utter are " ambition , " " renown , " " honour , " " war , " brute " courage , " and HAS THE STAGE A MORAL TENDENCY ? 103.
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Página 172 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página 181 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Página 182 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 173 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Página 19 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me!
Página 181 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humoured thus, Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell king! Cover your heads...
Página 181 - Shall be unsaid for me : against the threats Of malice or of sorcery, or that power Which erring men call Chance, this I hold firm, Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthrall'd ; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory...
Página 180 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 207 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Página 181 - tis too late. Lucio. You are too cold. [To Isabella. Isab. Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.