The Metropolitan, Volume 16James Cochrane, 1836 |
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... fair , we are told that he has a facial expression , which announces that he has looked upon high hills , and tended cows , or sheep perchance , or geese , in his youth ; and that the bumps on his forehead , ragged hairs , and other ...
... fair , we are told that he has a facial expression , which announces that he has looked upon high hills , and tended cows , or sheep perchance , or geese , in his youth ; and that the bumps on his forehead , ragged hairs , and other ...
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... fair ? Nor glows with classic rapture there ? - Mother of heroes ! mighty land ! Since Romulus unsheathed his brand , And saw the black - winged vultures tower , Prognostic of thy future power , What deeds of glory hast thou seen ...
... fair ? Nor glows with classic rapture there ? - Mother of heroes ! mighty land ! Since Romulus unsheathed his brand , And saw the black - winged vultures tower , Prognostic of thy future power , What deeds of glory hast thou seen ...
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... fair temple of purity and grace , within burned the sweet incense of early piety , poetic fancy , and clear reason ; and , together , with a joyousness of spirit that tinged with its reflected sunshine every object within its influence ...
... fair temple of purity and grace , within burned the sweet incense of early piety , poetic fancy , and clear reason ; and , together , with a joyousness of spirit that tinged with its reflected sunshine every object within its influence ...
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... fair face of woman at the domestic hearth . " Well , Jane , " said the earl , as she seated herself at the end of the green damask covered settee upon which he half reclined , " how have you left our friends at Menzies Castle ...
... fair face of woman at the domestic hearth . " Well , Jane , " said the earl , as she seated herself at the end of the green damask covered settee upon which he half reclined , " how have you left our friends at Menzies Castle ...
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... to the health of his fair Ganymede . " Do you imagine , my lord , " said the earl , addressing the prince , " that the troops are really on their way to Bute ? " " ' Tis more than probable , " answered Charles The Young Pretender . 55.
... to the health of his fair Ganymede . " Do you imagine , my lord , " said the earl , addressing the prince , " that the troops are really on their way to Bute ? " " ' Tis more than probable , " answered Charles The Young Pretender . 55.
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Página 118 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 82 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 118 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 98 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Página 327 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 253 - ... entirely apprehended by his hearer. There was sometimes an obvious struggle to do this to his own satisfaction ; he seemed labouring to drag his thought to light from its deep lurking-place ; and, with...
Página 71 - I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 247 - Snug the Joiner is the moral man of the piece, who proceeds by measurement and discretion in all things. You see him with his rule and compasses in his hand. " Have you the lion's part written ? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Página 71 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name ! Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Página 103 - Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), 'that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang came and stole her husband from her; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did!