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... given ungrudgingly . There are a sort of fellows in the world who think of every gift , that the giver gives be- cause he doesn't care to keep what he is giving . On the cynical theory of human thought and feeling - which , after all ...
... given ungrudgingly . There are a sort of fellows in the world who think of every gift , that the giver gives be- cause he doesn't care to keep what he is giving . On the cynical theory of human thought and feeling - which , after all ...
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... given as that of an intriguing , sharp , greedy woman , who has pushed her daughter over the tricked husband's threshold , as a larcenous swindler pushes slily the point of his toe between the door and door - post , when the silly ...
... given as that of an intriguing , sharp , greedy woman , who has pushed her daughter over the tricked husband's threshold , as a larcenous swindler pushes slily the point of his toe between the door and door - post , when the silly ...
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... given you . The girl was poor ; but you allow yourself that her good looks , her good sense , her good temper , have brought no contemptible dowry to the house . Nay ! be honest , and admit - what in your secret heart you feel - that ...
... given you . The girl was poor ; but you allow yourself that her good looks , her good sense , her good temper , have brought no contemptible dowry to the house . Nay ! be honest , and admit - what in your secret heart you feel - that ...
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... given to changefulness of intent , being a firm man , and of au- thority , whereby he delayed not for ordinar ' conveniency . Only the poor beast had stood in need of a bit half- feed of corn , however well used to that road . And it ...
... given to changefulness of intent , being a firm man , and of au- thority , whereby he delayed not for ordinar ' conveniency . Only the poor beast had stood in need of a bit half- feed of corn , however well used to that road . And it ...
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... given his gait a strutting air , while it was obvious that he had taken heed to pre- vious counsel from the elders . But his eye had roamed sideways , and his re- strained agility of tread evinced the captive only for a time . Even ...
... given his gait a strutting air , while it was obvious that he had taken heed to pre- vious counsel from the elders . But his eye had roamed sideways , and his re- strained agility of tread evinced the captive only for a time . Even ...
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Page 331 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Page 46 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 5 - Dilke upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
Page 6 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 5 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 5 - Sublime; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade ; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen.
Page 376 - My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot: My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My IK.II [ is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.
Page 6 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Page 5 - Abbey," and it seems to me that his Genius is explorative of those dark Passages. Now if we live, and go on thinking, we too shall explore them.
Page 7 - The pipy hemlock to strange overgrowth ; Bethinking thee, how melancholy loth Thou wast to lose fair Syrinx — do thou now, By thy love's milky brow! By all the trembling mazes that she ran, Hear us, great Pan!