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... manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way , ( such as reason teacheth and proveth things by , ) which , by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expres- sion , doth affect and amuse the fancy , stirring in it some ...
... manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way , ( such as reason teacheth and proveth things by , ) which , by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expres- sion , doth affect and amuse the fancy , stirring in it some ...
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... manners : I will name you the degrees . The first , the Retort courteous ; the second , the Quip modest ; the third , the Reply churlish ; the fourth , the Reproof valiant ; the fifth , the Countercheck quarrelsome ; the sixth , the Lie ...
... manners : I will name you the degrees . The first , the Retort courteous ; the second , the Quip modest ; the third , the Reply churlish ; the fourth , the Reproof valiant ; the fifth , the Countercheck quarrelsome ; the sixth , the Lie ...
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... manners must of necessity Best know his own , and mend those , by example . ' Tis a dull thing to travel like a mill horse , Still in the place he was born in , lamed and blinded ; Living at home is like it . Pure and strong spirits ...
... manners must of necessity Best know his own , and mend those , by example . ' Tis a dull thing to travel like a mill horse , Still in the place he was born in , lamed and blinded ; Living at home is like it . Pure and strong spirits ...
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... manner depends for its supply of power upon so slight an agency as particles of water expanded by heat . The steam which we see issuing from the common tea - kettle , when pent up within an ingeniously contrived me- chanism , displays a ...
... manner depends for its supply of power upon so slight an agency as particles of water expanded by heat . The steam which we see issuing from the common tea - kettle , when pent up within an ingeniously contrived me- chanism , displays a ...
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... manner by sunrise we all assembled in our common apartment , the fire being previously kindled by the servant . After we had saluted each other with proper ceremony , for I always thought fit to keep up some mechanical forms of good ...
... manner by sunrise we all assembled in our common apartment , the fire being previously kindled by the servant . After we had saluted each other with proper ceremony , for I always thought fit to keep up some mechanical forms of good ...
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Page 23 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 63 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve ; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long. She wept with pity and delight, She blushed with love, and virgin shame ; And like the murmur of a dream, I heard her breathe my name. Her bosom heaved, — she stepped aside, As conscious of my look she stept, — Then suddenly, with timorous eye She fled to me and wept.
Page 43 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield.
Page 14 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 23 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my ANNABEL LEE; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 137 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 62 - With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew, I could not choose But gaze upon her face. I told her of the Knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand; And that for ten long years he wooed The Lady of the Land. I told her how he pined ; and ah ! The deep, the low, the pleading tone 'With which I sang another's love, Interpreted my own.
Page 6 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...
Page 39 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 19 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...