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... 34 Actus Quartus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Actus Quintus. - i - The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus cc4 Actus Primus. Scoena ... ... Followers, 10 Pleade my Successiue Title with your Swords. 11 I was the first borne Sonne, that was the last 12 That wore the Imper... ...and Nobility: 23 But let Desert in pure Election shine; 24 And Romanes, fight for Freedome in your Choice. 25 Enter Marcus Andronicu... ...9 A speciall Party, haue by Common voyce 30 In Election for the Romane Emperie, 31 Chosen Andronicus, Sur- named Pious, 32 Fo... ...8 And heere I sweare by all the Romaine Gods, 359 Sith Priest and Holy- water are so neere, 360 And Tapers burne so bright, and euery th... ... Yes, and will Nobly him remunerate. 444 Flourish. 445 Enter the Emperor, Tamora, and her two sons, with the Moore 446 at one doore. En... ... 796 Or is it Dian habited like her, 797 Who hath abandoned her holy Groues, 798 To see the generall Hunting in this Forrest? 799 ... ...e gods haue giuen vs ouer. 1728 Flourish. 1729 Dem. Why do the Emperors trumpets flourish thus? 1730 Chi. Belike for ioy the Emper...

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...ë PREFACE A PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION of Jane Eyre being unneces- sary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment... ...uthor. The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms; but my Publish- ers are definite: so are ... ...id. “You are like a murderer— you are like a slave-driver—you are like the Roman emperors!” I had read Goldsmith’s History of Rome, and had formed my ... ...ou are like a murderer— you are like a slave-driver—you are like the Roman emperors!” I had read Goldsmith’s History of Rome, and had formed my opinio... ..., to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney- piece; the bed rose before me; to my right... ...t region to Lowood, more populous, less pictur- esque; more stirring, less romantic. The roads were heavy, the night misty; my conductor let his horse... ...an town you spoke of?” “I lived long ago with mama; but she is gone to the Holy Virgin. Mama used to teach me to dance and sing, and to say verses. A ... ...shall I dance for you?” “No, that will do: but after your mama went to the Holy Virgin, as you say, with whom did you live then?” “With Madame Frederi... ...d vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crim- son couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale 106 Jane Eyre Pariain mantelpiec...

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...and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact moment where my exp... ...d to my appointment as adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into ... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...control of their secret of papermaking, but the arrogance of one of T‘ang Emperor Hsuan-tsung‘s generals opened the way near Samarkand for the secre... ...r the secret‘s escape. After the arrogant Chinese general completed his emperor‘s assignment to clear a Tibetan blockade of the East-West trade ro... ...eighth through the tenth centuries and was crowned the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire in 800. Before recalling their accomplishments, let‘s ... ... been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, who had expanded the Frankish kingdoms i... ...turned Brad‘s mind both to Gutenberg‘s historic InfoTech invention and to Otto Mergenthaler‘s marvelous Linotype printing machines, which he‘d admir...

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... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want... ... meet you Dr. Chan. Wanda Wang suggested that we meet you when we were in Singaling.‖ —―Glad to meet you all. Please just call me Chuck. I know... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ...en, eating meat less, praying or meditating more, reading the scriptures continually, decrying sin more loudly—are all possible activities of holy p... ...k priests over cleaning rights at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem at Christmas in 2007 and for worshiping rights at the Church of the Holy S... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...and gave up his throne for the love of a divorcee, the British were aghast, but the world was enraptured. When Prince Akihito, the son of the Empero... ...hens, exhorting the Athenians to democracy and greatness. I saw the Parthenon evolve from a temple to Athena, to a Christian church then to an Ottoma...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 E...

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... equal opportunity university. Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ........................................................................... ...ULTS. 457 4 Memorials, and Other Papers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE ... ...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...than his understanding. An arrière pensée should lie hidden in all minds—a holy reserve as to cases which may arise similar to such as HAVE arisen, wh... ...and the orders for that day’s exercise, and considered her- self, like the Emperor Titus, to have lost a day. But what came of the London lady’s or of... ...faculty of shap- ing and conceiving things under their true relations. The holy herald of Christ, and Christ himself the finisher of prophecy, made pr... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f...

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...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ..., nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily dis- covered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exe... ...new maxims to the governing powers, and pe- culiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the... ...where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law; where the light thrown by con... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...t onely so, but also that he hath guided his people by his strength to his holy habitation and planted them in the mountain of his inheritance in re- ... ...Thus the province of Holland in the republic of the Low Countries, and the Emperor in the Germanic Confedera- tion, have sometimes put themselves in t... ...id that the deserts of the Thebaid were peopled by the persecutions of the emperors and the massacres of the Circus; I should rather say that it was b...

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...ASUISTRY ....................................................................................................................... 143 GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS..................................................................................... 189...

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... , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays ... ...E UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER GREECE UNDER THE R THE R THE R THE R THE ROMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS OMANS ............................................... ... OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIAN... ...ve arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of their word religlo, th... ... less nor other than it would be for a Prussian to denounce the Aus- trian emperor, or an Austrian to denounce the Prussian king, as a false sovereign... ...; and he takes occasion to say, that God is not good, but goodness; is not holy, but holiness; is not infinite, but infin- ity. This, I apprehend, wil... ...s, she feels, (though analytically she could not explain,) that God is not holy or is not happy by way of participation, after the manner of other bei... ...the idea of a translation from the old western Rome, and overthrown by the Ottoman T urks in the year 1453. In the fortunes and main stages of this em... ... pressing on to the van, two mighty powers, the children of Persia and the Otto- man family of the T urks. Upon these nations, both now rap- idly deca...

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...o religion and the state as a whole. By the right and ordinance of nature, I merely mean those natural laws wherewith we conceive every individual to ... ...he thinks the greatest; and, of two evils, that which he thinks the least. I say advisedly that which he thinks the greatest or the least, for it does... ...b- mit to their rule, and obey their commands. Thus Augustus persuaded the Romans that he was descended from AEneas, who was the son of V enus, and nu... ...und could not be carried on elsewhere: their own land alone was considered holy, the rest of the earth unclean and profane. 29 Spinoza David, who was... ...ights of the tribal captains) was, with great difficulty, destroyed by the Romans, as Tacitus bears witness (Hist. ii:4):- “V espasian had closed the ... ... example, the vilest – hypocrites, stirred, as they pretended, by the same holy wrath which they called zeal for the Lord, persecuted men whose unblem... ...t, nay, even to excommunicate it from the Church, as Ambrosius treated the Emperor Theodosius in old time. However, I will show later on in this chapt... ... the summits of dominion; however much monarchs, and especially the German emperors, strove to curtail his authority, were it only by a hairsbreadth, ...

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...ginally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I THE OBJECT OF THIS E SSAY is to explain as clearly as I am able ground... ...S E SSAY is to explain as clearly as I am able grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at... ...d and sea, Europe and Asia, to give their lives for the deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre. It could make kings relinquish wives who were the object of... ...England is worse than that of slaves in the laws of many countries: by the Roman law, for example, a slave might have his peculium, which to a certain... ...by torture rather than betray their masters. In the pro scriptions of the Roman civil wars it was remarked that wives and slaves were heroically fait... ... in a manner hardly equalled by any prince among their contemporaries. The Emperor Charles the Fifth, the most politic prince of his time, who had as ...

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...ce of all our hap piness and friendship with the gods and with one another. I dare say that I have omitted to mention many things which you, Aristoph... ...have omitted to mention many things which you, Aristophanes, may supply , as I perceive that you are cured of the hiccough. Aristophanes is the next s... ...e application and reveals a deep insight into the world:—that in speaking of holy things and persons there is a general understanding that you should ... ...g men and boys, which was alone capable of inspiring the mod ern feeling of romance in the Greek mind. The passion of love took the spurious form of ... ...s, e.g. Cimon, Alcibiades, Critias, Demosthenes, Epaminondas: several of the Roman emperors were assailed by similar weapons which have been used even... .... Cimon, Alcibiades, Critias, Demosthenes, Epaminondas: several of the Roman emperors were assailed by similar weapons which have been used even in ou...

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... His mind was quite clear; his face looked very tired, yet bright and almost joyful. It wore an expression of gaiety, kindness and cordiality. ?Maybe I shall not live through the coming day,? he said to Alyosha. Then he desired to confess and take the sacrament at once. He always confessed to Father Paissy. After taking the communion, the service of extreme unction followe...

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...t joyful. It wore an expression of gaiety, kindness and cordiality. “Maybe I shall not live through the coming day,” he said to Alyosha. Then he desir... ...as much as he could. Though his voice was weak, it was fairly steady. “I’ve been teaching you so many years, and therefore I’ve been talking aloud... ...h the cabbage soup. From Mon- day till Saturday evening, six whole days in Holy W eek, noth- ing is cooked, and we have only bread and water, and that... ... and then take a little bread and water and drink a single cup of wine. On Holy Thursday we drink wine and have something cooked without oil or not co... ...defence. In 1812 there was a great in- vasion of Russia by Napoleon, first Emperor of the French, father of the present one, and it would have been a ... ... s robes, as he was the day before, when he was burning the enemies of the Roman Church—at this moment he is wear- 85 Dostoevsky ing his coarse, old,... ...at He has said of old. One may say it is the most funda- mental feature of Roman Catholicism, in my opinion at least. ‘All has been given by Thee to t... ...rthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for Emperor… that’s their ideal, but there’ s no sort of mystery or lofty melan...

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...emperance and truth which she once gazed upon in heaven. Then she celebrated holy mysteries and beheld blessed apparitions shining in pure light, hers... ...ved from their god. The manner in which they take their love is as follows:— I told you about the charioteer and his two steeds, the one a noble anima... ...m that time forward the soul of the lover follows the beloved in modesty and holy fear . And now their bliss is consummated; the same im age of love ... ...e wings. Socrates concludes:— These are the blessings of love, and thus have I made my recantation in finer language than before: I did so in order to... ...that he is not in his right mind? And yet they are praised by the authors of romances, who reject the warnings of their friends or parents, rather tha... ... Christian reproductions of Greek plays, nov els like the silly and obscene romances of Lon gus and Heliodorus, innumerable forged epistles, a great... ... Hellas and the East? Only in Plutarch, in Lucian, in Longinus, in the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Julian, in some of the Christian fathers are...

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...nown in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that this ?landowner?--for so we used to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his own estate--was a strange type, yet one pretty frequen...

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...ZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART I Book I The History of a Family Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov ALEX... ... his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. For the present I will only say that ... ... called him, I won’ t attempt to explain. I knew a young lady of the last “roman- tic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a g... ...ng sun (that he recalled most vividly of all); in a corner of the room the holy image, before it a lighted lamp, and on her knees before the image his... ...s not very large, but very delicate and conspicuously aquiline. “A regular Roman nose,” he used to say, “with my goitre I’ve quite the countenance of ... ...mother may have taken him to mass. Per- haps the slanting sunlight and the holy image to which his poor “crazy” mother had held him up still acted upo... ...defence. In 1812 there was a great in- vasion of Russia by Napoleon, first Emperor of the French, father of the present one, and it would have been a ... ...rthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for Emperor… that’s their ideal, but there’ s no sort of mystery or lofty melan...

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...it’s Hand 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two year... ...ave been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and dem... ...en as wretched under its hopelessness as if the house had been a castle of romance. Little more than a week ago at Marseilles, the face of the pretty ... ... Refrain was notoriously the invention of a tambour-worker, a spinster and romantic, still lodging in the Y ard. But, forasmuch as all favourite legen... ...e Neptune’s, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now 193 Little Do... ...lready in giving you pain with- out having any such intentions, before the holy Heavens! that there is no fear of my saying it unless I have your leav... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit ‘Also professional?’ said Mrs M... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...trived these things now-a-days. The murderous-headed statues of the wicked Emperors of the Soldiery, whom sculptors had not been able to flatter out o...

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...er seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its ship- ping. Stat... ...n the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center. I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his co... ...en Shoreditch and Russell Square, but as one does so in the deserts of the Holy Land, between Emmaus and Arimathea. In the first place no one knows wh... ...itution. The five first are Grecian, and the last in Washington is called— Romanesque. Had I been left to classify it by my own unaided lights, I shou... ...unless indeed they be needed to give to the whole struc- ture that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectu... ..., had Garibaldi held a marshal’s baton 56 North America V ol. 2 under the Emperor of Austria or the King of Naples, those men would have been traitor... ...s to be done by the Queen’s officers of state for Great Britain, or by the Emperor, with such assistance as he may please to accept from his officers ... ...or to bestow my charity on them for the love of the Virgin, using the most holy names in their 344 North America V ol. 2 adjurations for half-pence, ...

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...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents LETTER I.—ON THE QUAKERS ............................................................ ... the age of thirty- two to the age of thirty-five. He was here when George I. 6 Letters on England died, and George II. became king. He published her... ...son who uses it; but then we think that those who profess a religion of so holy, so spiritual a nature as that of Christ, ought to abstain to the utmo... ...than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.’ Likewise Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles... ...enius and knowledge, and to whom Descartes had dedicated his Philosophical Romance. She was then retired to the Hague, where she received these Friend... ...what is related of a certain orthodox bishop, who, in order to convince an emperor of the reality of consubstantiation, put his hand under the chin of... ...rch’s son, and took him by the nose in presence of his sacred majesty? The emperor was going to order his atten- dants to throw the bishop out of the ... ...BERS of the English Parliament are fond of comparing themselves to the old Romans. Not long since Mr. Shippen opened a speech in the House of Commons ...

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... MORAL ESSAYS ............................................................................................................................ 25 EPISTLE I.?TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*............................................ 26 EPISTLE II.?TO A LADY. ........................................................................................................... 33 EPIS...

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.................................................................. 25 EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*....................................... ......................... 133 EPIGRAM, ENGRA VED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 134 THE TRANSLATOR. ............................ ...him. His self-will, his ambition, his Pariah position, as belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, the feebleness of his constitution, the uncertainty o... ...now arises—What was his purpose? Was it worthy of his powers? Was it high, holy, and faithfully pursued? No poet, we venture to say, can be great with... ...and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! D... ...ges bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. With sharpen’d sight, pale antiquar... ..., And, as the precept of the church decrees, Will take a wife, and live in holy ease: But since by counsel all things should be done, And many heads a... ..., both for dramatic poetry and politics.—P . 355 ‘Monarch:’ Chi Ho-am-ti, Emperor of China, the same who built the great wall between China and T art...

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...intelligent minds) by Genoa, La Bochetta, and La Scrivia,—an opinion which I share and which Napoleon adopted,—not to speak of the verjuice with which... ...aginian fleet was moored in the Gulf of Spezzia or the roadstead of Genoa. I could understand these patient researches if there were any doubt as to t... ...few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does error propagate ... ...all Europe against Louis XIV . At another period England, Holland, and the Holy Ro- man Empire would not have welcomed banished Frenchmen and encourag... ...of Charles V. for his famous illegitimate daughter Margaret. Thus Pope and emperor were prompted by the same sentiment. At this epoch Venice had the c... ...ed by a vast number of ladies and gentlemen, both French and Italian. “The Holy Father having arrived in the midst of this com- pany at the place appo... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca...

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...ersons with heroic and ro- mantic qualities. 4 Catherine: A Story CHAPTER I. Introducing to the reader the chief personages of this narrative. AT THA... ...uld occupy the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly attached to the Emperor of Germany; or whether she was obliged to fight out the quarrel of ... ... black, glossy, long-tailed, barrel-bel- lied, thick-flanked, arch-necked, Roman-nosed Flanders horses, which were the property of the two gentlemen n... ...nocence, when vice, agreeable vice, is the only thing which the readers of romances care to hear? The little horse-boy, who was leading the two black ... ...band and cassock, took off his beaver reverently, and saluted the divine: “I hope your reverence won’t baulk the little fellow,” said he; “I think I h... ... Maximilian Gustavus Adolphus von Galgenstein, captain of horse and of the Holy Roman Empire” (he lifted here his hat with much gravity, and all the c... ...ntest about the garment. Psha! there is, perhaps, some faith- less girl in Holywell Street who fills up his heart; and that des- ultory Jew-boy is a p...

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...rvice in the Publication. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ no... ...ons were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called RobinsonKreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in En... ...dreadful as at first I apprehended, nor was I carried up the Country to the Emperor’s Court, as the rest of our Men were, but was kept by the Captain o... ...Land, I could not be less than 150 Miles South of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco’s Dominions, or indeed of any other King thereabouts, fo... ...but that as God was necessarily, and by the Nature of his Being, infinitely Holy and Just, so it could not be, but that if these Creatures were all sen... ...the Veneration of the People to the Clergy, is not only to be found in the Roman, but perhaps among all Religions in the World, even among the most br... ...ading, as their Commander and Captain; and that they should swear upon the Holy Sacraments and the Gospel, to be true to me, and to go to such Christi... ...Way, and that was Religion; for as I had entertain’d some Doubts about the Roman Religion, even while I was abroad, especially in my State of Solitude...

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...10 PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS How the Play came to be Written I had better explain why, in this little piece d’occasion, written for a pe... ...project for estab- lishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me sa... ... and whose political imbecility and caprice moved Coriolanus to say to the Roman Radical who demanded at least “good words” from him He that will g... ...opped on our stage as dead as the second part of Goethe’s Faust or Ibsen’s Emperor or Galilean. Here, then, Shakespear had a real grievance; and thoug... ...at the Word was God? THE LADY. Beware, fellow, how you presume to speak of holy things. The Queen is the head of the Church. THE MAN. Y ou are the hea...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT ...

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................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ................................................... ................................................. 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES ..................................................................... ...ne in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T o the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very... ...myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five romances s... ...e can render just as easily the flourish of trum- pets before a victorious emperor and the gossip of country market women, the gradual decay of forty ... ...anic, if not an incoherent, presentation of both the poems and the man. Of Holy Willie ’s Prayer, Principal Shairp remarks that “those who have loved ... ...eme so uncongenial. When we find a man writing on Burns, who likes neither Holy Willie, nor the Beg- gars, nor the Ordination, nothing is adequate to ... ...the different degrees of bygone men, from the holy Apostles and the golden Emperor of the East, down to the heralds, pursuivants, and trumpeters, who ...