National Review, Volume 17Robert Theobold, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... never persuaded himself that , in returning to Oxford and to the Church of England , he came back to another but a smaller Rome , which claimed the right to suppress inquiry and to silence conscience . His restless , scepti- cal mind ...
... never persuaded himself that , in returning to Oxford and to the Church of England , he came back to another but a smaller Rome , which claimed the right to suppress inquiry and to silence conscience . His restless , scepti- cal mind ...
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... the strong man to sleep . To be brief , a long discussion followed , from which the sick man never fully rallied . Cheynell gave him many more visits ; but he seldom found him fit to discourse , because Falkland , Chillingworth , Hales .
... the strong man to sleep . To be brief , a long discussion followed , from which the sick man never fully rallied . Cheynell gave him many more visits ; but he seldom found him fit to discourse , because Falkland , Chillingworth , Hales .
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... never allowed to sleep . Then followed the grave question of his burial . Was he to be buried as a Christian at all ? As he had not answered Cheynell's questions satisfactorily , he was not supposed to have made a full and free ...
... never allowed to sleep . Then followed the grave question of his burial . Was he to be buried as a Christian at all ? As he had not answered Cheynell's questions satisfactorily , he was not supposed to have made a full and free ...
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... never intend either to read these things , which I have now excepted against , nor to say ' Amen ' to them . " Unhappily the answer of the future archbishop to the remarkable letter from which this passage is an extract is not extant ...
... never intend either to read these things , which I have now excepted against , nor to say ' Amen ' to them . " Unhappily the answer of the future archbishop to the remarkable letter from which this passage is an extract is not extant ...
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... never have written as he did , or become the household author in the hands of what may be called the European " man of the world . " - It is this singular combination of ancient art and complex personal feeling which makes Horace so ...
... never have written as he did , or become the household author in the hands of what may be called the European " man of the world . " - It is this singular combination of ancient art and complex personal feeling which makes Horace so ...
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Page 305 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 296 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 306 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 310 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — to beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 316 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 319 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!
Page 527 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 190 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 305 - Art thou afear'd To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 309 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!