Poet Lore, Volume 6AMS Reprint, 1894 |
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Page 128 - woman's heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice : Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprising what they look on ; and her wit Values itself so highly, that to her All matter else seems weak : she cannot love, Nor take no shape, nor project of affection, She is so self-endeared.
Page 524 - Come, lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. " Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise ! praise ! praise ! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Page 102 - And the sky saddens with the gathered storm. Through the hushed air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering; till at last the flakes Fall broad and wide and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow. The cherished fields Put on their winter-robe of purest white.
Page 522 - tis too horrible 1 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.
Page 140 - God's puppets, best and worst Are we : there is no last nor first. " Say not ' a small event ' ! Why ' small Costs it more pain than this, ye call A ' great event ' should come to pass, Than that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed
Page 9 - when comes such another ? " But what are almost the first words of this friend of the people when he next appears on the stage ? " But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house; Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine How to cut off some charge in legacies.
Page 456 - Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels ; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days." But this is not the key-note given in the play of ' Henry Fifth.
Page 9 - eloquent executor will cheat the legatees of the dead Dictator to the utmost degree he can. The next moment, when Lepidus has gone on this errand, Antony says to Octavius : — " This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands : is it fit, The threefold world divided, he should stand One of the three to share it f
Page 495 - It better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any; in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied that I am a plain-dealing villain.