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Redfield, 1856
 

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Page 245 - Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, * * ' * * * And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes
Page 293 - rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted* spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world" is generally considered as derived from Virgil's description of the Platonic hell:—
Page 200 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, when it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, ' . And dashed the brains out, had I but so sworn As you have done to this.
Page 218 - day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes way to the rooky wood.— Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse. Thou
Page 197 - reality, wanted. Not merely the murder of Duncan, but of Malcolm, was already resolved on by Macbeth:— " The Prince of Cumberland ! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars ! hide your fires, Let not light see my
Page 171 - ocular proof: Or, by the worth of mine eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my waked wrath. *.#*** Make me to see 't, or, at the least, so prove it, That the probation bear no hinge, no loop To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life
Page 168 - That he is too familiar with his wife." But it still alarms him :— " I have it—it's engendered : Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light." The plot is not matured even when they all arrive at Cyprus. " 'Tis here, but yet confused— Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
Page 300 - His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance as he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example." Warburton's interpretation of the word from the Roman writers and their glossers is " Suggestio est, cum magistratus quilibet principi salubre consilium suggerit;" which, however, is not exactly
Page 201 - ' I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis To love the babe that milks me." etc. "And lastly, in the moment of extremes! horror, comes that unexpected touch of feeling, so startling, yet so wonderfully true to nature :— "
Page 184 - in soliloquy, as being suspected of faithlessness to his bed, but he obviously does not believe the charge:— " I hate the Moor; And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets He has done my office; I know not if't be true, But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety.

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