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... position , in which the path of safety is the path of crime , and to do right and follow peace is to insure his fall . Crime begets crime in every sphere of human action , and a bloody triumph can only be perpetuated by blood . It is ...
... position , in which the path of safety is the path of crime , and to do right and follow peace is to insure his fall . Crime begets crime in every sphere of human action , and a bloody triumph can only be perpetuated by blood . It is ...
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... position . We should rather pity his difficulties than blame him for choos- ing the only road of escape , if we could forget that the em- barrassment is entirely of his own creation . But at any rate it is the permanent cause , and not ...
... position . We should rather pity his difficulties than blame him for choos- ing the only road of escape , if we could forget that the em- barrassment is entirely of his own creation . But at any rate it is the permanent cause , and not ...
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... position to which her population and territory entitle her , it is quite clear that she must be able at any moment to direct all her force against any given foe ; and the construction of some machinery that will secure this object must ...
... position to which her population and territory entitle her , it is quite clear that she must be able at any moment to direct all her force against any given foe ; and the construction of some machinery that will secure this object must ...
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... position of his folios of dramatic works . The following ex- amples , however , will show how much it behoved writers to look well to their passage through the press . Heresies have thriven on misreadings not more serious that those ...
... position of his folios of dramatic works . The following ex- amples , however , will show how much it behoved writers to look well to their passage through the press . Heresies have thriven on misreadings not more serious that those ...
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... position lost by his father . John Shakspeare inherited from his fathers , and acquired by marriage , land , money , flocks , and herds ; yet he rose no higher in his native town than any equally endowed burgess might have risen , and ...
... position lost by his father . John Shakspeare inherited from his fathers , and acquired by marriage , land , money , flocks , and herds ; yet he rose no higher in his native town than any equally endowed burgess might have risen , and ...
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Página 165 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Página 58 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Página 193 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Página 227 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Página 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Página 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Página 189 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea...