The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & ArtW. McGee; [etc., etc.,], 1869 |
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... speech- Have patience with me yet , for I , O king ! O Menelaus , am thy junior far ; My elder and superior , thee , I own . Thou knowest the o'er eager vehemence of youth ; How quick in temper , and in judgment weak ; Set then thine ...
... speech- Have patience with me yet , for I , O king ! O Menelaus , am thy junior far ; My elder and superior , thee , I own . Thou knowest the o'er eager vehemence of youth ; How quick in temper , and in judgment weak ; Set then thine ...
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... general , and on Aspasia in particular , appears intentional , and carries out the concluding sentiment in the great speech he attributes to Perikles . the social theories of the philosophers alone can we hope 32 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF.
... general , and on Aspasia in particular , appears intentional , and carries out the concluding sentiment in the great speech he attributes to Perikles . the social theories of the philosophers alone can we hope 32 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF.
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... - phrase of the Athenian , grown Up out of memories of Marathon , Would echo like his own sword's grinding screech Braying a Persian shield , —the silver speech Of Sidney's self , the starry paladin , Turn intense 162 MR . TENNYSON.
... - phrase of the Athenian , grown Up out of memories of Marathon , Would echo like his own sword's grinding screech Braying a Persian shield , —the silver speech Of Sidney's self , the starry paladin , Turn intense 162 MR . TENNYSON.
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the Carthagenians was so intense , that he concluded all his speeches in the Roman senate with these words " Carthage ... speech of Demosthenes " on the Crown . " The occasion on which it was delivered was the following . Demosthenes ...
the Carthagenians was so intense , that he concluded all his speeches in the Roman senate with these words " Carthage ... speech of Demosthenes " on the Crown . " The occasion on which it was delivered was the following . Demosthenes ...
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... speech of our countryman , the Right Hon . Edmund Burke , before the House of Lords , assembled at Westminster Hall , on the occa- sion of the impeachment of Warren Hastings . This celebrated trial , that lasted altogether about seven ...
... speech of our countryman , the Right Hon . Edmund Burke , before the House of Lords , assembled at Westminster Hall , on the occa- sion of the impeachment of Warren Hastings . This celebrated trial , that lasted altogether about seven ...
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Page 164 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 164 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 142 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 156 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 42 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What
Page 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page 164 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by.
Page 163 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak : its soul is right, He means right — that, a child may understand.
Page 118 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 141 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere. For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart ; He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.