Charles Reade as I Knew HimTreherne, 1903 - 427 páginas |
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Página 255 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página 264 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 235 - Murder? Ghost. Murder most foul, as in the best it is ; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Página 266 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 346 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats...
Página 269 - But wherefore could not I pronounce Amen? I had most need of blessing and Amen Stuck in my throat.
Página 236 - ... four-footed animals of forbidding aspect, and as such they have since haunted the visions of several generations, young and old, by night and by day. I have just made a pilgrimage to Sydenham to see with my own eyes these famous restorations, and, so far as I can judge, there is nothing like unto them in the heavens, or on the earth, or in the waters under the earth. We now know from good evidence that both...
Página 256 - Will Sir John take Fanny without a fortune? No. — After you have settled the largest part of your property on your youngest daughter, can there be an equal portion left for the eldest? No. — Does not this overturn the whole systum of the fammaly ? Yes, yes, yes.
Página 47 - It is the very error of the moon ; She comes more near the earth than she was wont ; And makes men mad.
Página 145 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?