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The Novels of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe ...: To which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the ... - Page 269
by Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824
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The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at ..., Volume 5

Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 pages
...again. Lady- You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. Macb. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights,...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...They are natural; For, I believe, they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? The spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...ill . Lady M. You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, With moit admir'd disorder. Macb. Can such things be. And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can beliold such sights,...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading ..., Volume 9; Volume 56

United States. Congress - 1838 - 684 pages
...with arms in their hands, which !iad actually been used for purposes of insurrection and rebellion. "Can such things be, and overcome us like a summer's cloud, without our special wonder?" Sir, I have been forcibly struck with the resemblance between the recent proceedings of the executive...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...Quam sitis. These words were afterwards corrupted into wassail and wassailer. NOTE XXXII. Macbeth. Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I otve, When now I think, you can behold such sights,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak, i Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ?] The meaning is, can such wonders as these pass over us without wonder, as a casual summer cloud...
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The Mysterious Freebooter, Or The Days of Queen Bess: A Romance

Francis Lathom - 1828 - 896 pages
...believe, and remember, that Eloise will never lift her hand against her own existence!" CHAPTER XIII. i such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? MAI BETH. HERE ended the manuscript. " Thou didst never return to thy task, then, unfortunate Eloise...
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The Table Book, Volume 2

William Hone - 1828 - 468 pages
...cured both parties, and terminated ïe dispute. THE HAUNTED MILL. For the Table Book. • Can snch things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? It is now nearly ten years since I listened to a story, which haunts me like the recollection of...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...Peter, ii. 19. This wretched woman, overcome Of anguish rather than of crime hath been. Spemer. Can't such things be And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? Shakspeare. Fire by thicker air o'ercame, And downward forced in earth's capacious womb, Alters its...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, ..--.- -. : With most admir'd disorder. Macb. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, ' . Without our special wonder? You make me strange Everi to the disposition that I owe/ When now I think you can behold such sights,...
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