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... lives . Menander fucceeded only by this art among the Greeks : and the Romans , " when they fat at Terence's comedies , imagined them- " felves in a private party ; for they found nothing there " which they had not been used to find in ...
... lives . Menander fucceeded only by this art among the Greeks : and the Romans , " when they fat at Terence's comedies , imagined them- " felves in a private party ; for they found nothing there " which they had not been used to find in ...
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... live a man ( 3 ) forbid ; Weary fev'n - nights nine times nine , Shall he dwindle , peak and pine : Tho ' his bark cannot be loft , Yet it shall be tempeft - toft . Look what I have . 2d Witch . Shew me , fhew me . ( 1 ) Aroint thee ...
... live a man ( 3 ) forbid ; Weary fev'n - nights nine times nine , Shall he dwindle , peak and pine : Tho ' his bark cannot be loft , Yet it shall be tempeft - toft . Look what I have . 2d Witch . Shew me , fhew me . ( 1 ) Aroint thee ...
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... live a man forbid . Mr. Theobald has very juftly explained forbid by ac curfed , but without giving any reafon of his interpreta- tion . To bid is originally to pray , as in this Saxon frag- ment . De ir vir bit bote , & c . J He is ...
... live a man forbid . Mr. Theobald has very juftly explained forbid by ac curfed , but without giving any reafon of his interpreta- tion . To bid is originally to pray , as in this Saxon frag- ment . De ir vir bit bote , & c . J He is ...
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... lives , A profp'rous gentleman . And in the next line confiders the promises , that he fhould be Cawdor and King , as equally unlikely to be accomplished . How can Macbeth be ignorant of the ftate of the Thane of Cawdor , whom he has ...
... lives , A profp'rous gentleman . And in the next line confiders the promises , that he fhould be Cawdor and King , as equally unlikely to be accomplished . How can Macbeth be ignorant of the ftate of the Thane of Cawdor , whom he has ...
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... lives . Why do you dress me in his borrowed robes ? Roffe and Angus , who were the meffengers that in the second scene informed the king of the affiftance given by Cawdor to the invader , having loft , as well as Mac- beth , all memory ...
... lives . Why do you dress me in his borrowed robes ? Roffe and Angus , who were the meffengers that in the second scene informed the king of the affiftance given by Cawdor to the invader , having loft , as well as Mac- beth , all memory ...
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Seite 100 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Seite 411 - ... by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all the elemental powers, have hitherto refused my authority, and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain.
Seite 116 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Seite 107 - Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them ; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings...
Seite 302 - The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds.
Seite 95 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Seite 326 - I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace.
Seite 315 - But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Seite 311 - ... powers, who had contrived many engines both of use and recreation. By a wheel, which the stream turned, he forced the water into a tower, whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace. He erected a pavilion in the garden, around which he kept the air always cool by artificial showers.
Seite 436 - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.