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Pagina 272 - her burying grave, that is her womb : And from her womb, children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find : Many for virtues excellent, None but for some, and yet all different. O mickle is the powerful grace, that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities : For nought so vile that on the earth doth live,
Pagina 217 - WHAT IS GENIUS ? GENIUS and talents are often confounded. "To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar With sun, and moon, and stars, throughout the year,
Pagina 218 - —this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as, in like manner, imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower
Pagina 38 - IS THE FEAR OF DEATH NATURAL TO MAN? *' The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." MANY good and great men, in their lives and writings, have laboured to prove that the Fear of Death is not natural to man. In no modern writings, however, have we seen this
Pagina 271 - studieth the laws of the realm—who studieth in the universities—who professeth the liberal sciences— and, (to be short,) who can live idly and without manual labour, and well bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman—he shall be called master, and taken for a gentleman.
Pagina 205 - As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow, While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below ; So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while.'
Pagina 271 - There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. 2 Clown. Was he a gentleman ? 1 Clown. He was the first that ever bore arms. 2 Clown. Why, he
Pagina 266 - a man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of her servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly was only belonging to her husband." THE GUILLOTINE. THERE are two Errors in the common history of this instrument of death, employed to this day in public executions in France.
Pagina 94 - classes of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating their homes. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.
Pagina 295 - their Monmouth caps; which your majesty knows, to this hour, is an honourable padge of the service; and I do believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek on Saint