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... spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming from the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man onward , right onward to his object , this is eloquence ; or , rather , it is something greater and higher than all eloquence ...
... spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming from the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man onward , right onward to his object , this is eloquence ; or , rather , it is something greater and higher than all eloquence ...
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... spirit . The painter , the sculptor , the poet , express heroic beauty better in description ; but the others are heroic beauty , the best belov'd of art . Talk not so much then , young artist , of the great old masters , who but ...
... spirit . The painter , the sculptor , the poet , express heroic beauty better in description ; but the others are heroic beauty , the best belov'd of art . Talk not so much then , young artist , of the great old masters , who but ...
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... spirit , Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night , And for the day , confined to fast in fires , Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away . - SHAKESPEARE , Hamlet . THE BEND Positive statements often ...
... spirit , Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night , And for the day , confined to fast in fires , Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away . - SHAKESPEARE , Hamlet . THE BEND Positive statements often ...
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... spirit all sunshine , graceful from very glad- ness , beautiful because bright . - CARLYLE . What ho , my jovial mates ! come on ! we'll frolic it Like fairies frisking in the merry moonshine ! - SCOTT . How like a fawning publican he ...
... spirit all sunshine , graceful from very glad- ness , beautiful because bright . - CARLYLE . What ho , my jovial mates ! come on ! we'll frolic it Like fairies frisking in the merry moonshine ! - SCOTT . How like a fawning publican he ...
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... Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present , and , with mighty wings outspread , Dovelike , sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest ...
... Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present , and , with mighty wings outspread , Dovelike , sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest ...
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Page 185 - His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 217 - Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry
Page 332 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place...
Page 368 - I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel ; ' As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Page 337 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 217 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 164 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 76 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 379 - South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him ? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled...
Page 306 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us.