Meliora, 7–8. köidePartridge & Company, 1865 |
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... matter of human knowledge is divided into that which is Utilitarian , and that which is Speculative , as if the division would hold good for a moment in the presence of enlightened reason ! The latter division , we may state , includes ...
... matter of human knowledge is divided into that which is Utilitarian , and that which is Speculative , as if the division would hold good for a moment in the presence of enlightened reason ! The latter division , we may state , includes ...
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... matter driving home , sharply , often , and closely to ourselves as masters , servants , or , in any sense , parties concerned . The principle is clear enough , but our action will make it clearer . There needs be no parleying at ...
... matter driving home , sharply , often , and closely to ourselves as masters , servants , or , in any sense , parties concerned . The principle is clear enough , but our action will make it clearer . There needs be no parleying at ...
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... matter of our tithes . By the instructions you can give him thereof , and by the friends he can make therefor , we think it a fair mark for him to shoot at , and not impossible to hit . It obtained would advance him indeed and would do ...
... matter of our tithes . By the instructions you can give him thereof , and by the friends he can make therefor , we think it a fair mark for him to shoot at , and not impossible to hit . It obtained would advance him indeed and would do ...
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... matter - whether Dr. Heylin [ 1660-1662 ] does well in reckoning up the dramatic poets which have been famous in England to omit Shakespeare . ' John Aubrey , the gossip , about 1680 , writes in his MSS . ( Ashmoleon Museum , Oxford ) ...
... matter - whether Dr. Heylin [ 1660-1662 ] does well in reckoning up the dramatic poets which have been famous in England to omit Shakespeare . ' John Aubrey , the gossip , about 1680 , writes in his MSS . ( Ashmoleon Museum , Oxford ) ...
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... matter of course . Each band of workers - cobblers , carpenters , tailors , or spinners - had its own special rhyme set to a merry tune , and the precincts resounded with songs of joy . We have dwelt with pleasure on the details of this ...
... matter of course . Each band of workers - cobblers , carpenters , tailors , or spinners - had its own special rhyme set to a merry tune , and the precincts resounded with songs of joy . We have dwelt with pleasure on the details of this ...
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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.