Meliora, 7–8. köidePartridge & Company, 1865 |
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... look through the surfaces about them , and discern the torture , the dwarfage , and the debilitating effects that follow , the latter to trade itself . For one business man made by this compressing process , half - a- dozen are spoiled ...
... look through the surfaces about them , and discern the torture , the dwarfage , and the debilitating effects that follow , the latter to trade itself . For one business man made by this compressing process , half - a- dozen are spoiled ...
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... look upon apprenticeship as little better than negro slavery . More- over , it frequently smites down many a fair young mind , fitting itself by its own methods for , perhaps , the very vocation deemed to be distasteful or neglected in ...
... look upon apprenticeship as little better than negro slavery . More- over , it frequently smites down many a fair young mind , fitting itself by its own methods for , perhaps , the very vocation deemed to be distasteful or neglected in ...
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... look where we will , we miss men , and the agony of despair creeps over , when we meet only homunculuses , apologies , and clothes - horses . ' ' Have you dug up a great man lately ? ' asked a distinguished American of an English friend ...
... look where we will , we miss men , and the agony of despair creeps over , when we meet only homunculuses , apologies , and clothes - horses . ' ' Have you dug up a great man lately ? ' asked a distinguished American of an English friend ...
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... look Fresh to all ages . ' * * * * * Till these , till any of thy volume's rest , Shall with more fire more feeling be expressed ; Be sure , our Shakespeare , thou shalt never die , But crowned with laurel live eternally . ' Marston ...
... look Fresh to all ages . ' * * * * * Till these , till any of thy volume's rest , Shall with more fire more feeling be expressed ; Be sure , our Shakespeare , thou shalt never die , But crowned with laurel live eternally . ' Marston ...
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... Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well - turned and true - filed lines , In each of which he seems to shake a lance , As brandished at the eyes of ...
... Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well - turned and true - filed lines , In each of which he seems to shake a lance , As brandished at the eyes of ...
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Page 69 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 74 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 38 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Page 37 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 37 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 113 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 26 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 29 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 38 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 42 - To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.