 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there where I have garner'd up my heart... | |
 | John Davis - United States - 1803 - 470 pages
...vires acquirit cundo ; the discovery spread far and wide ; and whithersoever I went, I was an object for the hand of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at, as a schoolmaster that could not write. Virginia gave me for the persecutions I underwent a world of... | |
 | William Cook - 1805 - 240 pages
...could they sit in a crowded theatre, surrounded by the winkers, laughers, and sneerers, A fixed figure for the hand of Scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ? The patient endurance of such a scene, is almost above the feeling of humanity : as has been already... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highland (Scotland) - 1815 - 312 pages
...three Sundays successively, his face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at." Cromek's Remains, 206. There happened, a very few years ago, a fatal instance of the change of opinion... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 348 pages
...should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the hand of Scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,— O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd up my heart ;*... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 436 pages
...three Sundays successively, his face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at.'' Cromek's Remains, 2fi6. * Not long since, in a certain parish in Ayrshire, a serious, sober citizen,... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 568 pages
...three Sundays successively, his1 face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at/' Cromek's Remains, 2fi6. * Not long since, in a certain parish in Ayrshire, a serious, sober citieen,... | |
 | Benjamin Oakley - 1823 - 442 pages
...better than the plot and cast of ill-conceived representations. I should not like to be "a fixed figure for the hand of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at;" nor do I feel inclined " to unlace my reputation for the name of a night-brawler." Something too much... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...Sundays successively, hii face uncovered, and tin- awful icoarge hung orer him, •' Л fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at." ISLE OP BUTE. I was struck with the great difference' which exists between this Island and the one... | |
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Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes ; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas ! to make me A fixed figure, for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at... 
