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... Webb . Plain speaking is so much out of fashion now that anything which approaches censure is at once put down to personal malice . May I , therefore , be allowed to say that I have not the honour to be ac- quainted with the gentleman ...
... Webb . Plain speaking is so much out of fashion now that anything which approaches censure is at once put down to personal malice . May I , therefore , be allowed to say that I have not the honour to be ac- quainted with the gentleman ...
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... Webb , sometime Fellow of Trinity College , Regius Professor of Laws and Public Orator in the University of Dublin . 2 Advancement of Learning , bk . i .; Works , Spedding & Ellis , vol . iii . p . 285 . given to Aeneas and his ...
... Webb , sometime Fellow of Trinity College , Regius Professor of Laws and Public Orator in the University of Dublin . 2 Advancement of Learning , bk . i .; Works , Spedding & Ellis , vol . iii . p . 285 . given to Aeneas and his ...
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... . Now , we will say at once that , had it not been for the appearance of Dr. Webb's volume , we should no more have thought of discussing this subject than we should have thought of seriously discussing a 334 STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE.
... . Now , we will say at once that , had it not been for the appearance of Dr. Webb's volume , we should no more have thought of discussing this subject than we should have thought of seriously discussing a 334 STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE.
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... Webb , a Fellow of Trinity College , Dublin , and a Professor of the University , not only gives the sanction of his name to this grotesque heresy , but elabor- ately defends it , the whole matter assumes quite another complexion . So ...
... Webb , a Fellow of Trinity College , Dublin , and a Professor of the University , not only gives the sanction of his name to this grotesque heresy , but elabor- ately defends it , the whole matter assumes quite another complexion . So ...
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John Churton Collins. examination of Dr. Webb's book , or for our very plain speaking in commenting on it . The history of the craze which Dr. Webb has thus invested with importance is , briefly , this . It is said to have originated ...
John Churton Collins. examination of Dr. Webb's book , or for our very plain speaking in commenting on it . The history of the craze which Dr. Webb has thus invested with importance is , briefly , this . It is said to have originated ...
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Page 34 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth...
Page 224 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that: but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian...
Page 276 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 290 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with Life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skiey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict...
Page 281 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery. That aptly is put on.
Page 25 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 132 - Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge : ' our religion, parading evidences such as those on which the popular mind relies now ; our philosophy, pluming itself on its reasonings about causation and finite and infinite being ; what are they but the shadows and dreams and false shows of knowledge? The day will come when we shall wonder at ourselves for having trusted to them, for having taken them seriously; and the more we perceive their hollowness,...
Page 55 - They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 330 - ... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality.
Page 205 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?