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...as Born Staffa, the Island Fingal’s Cave Written upon the Top of Ben Nevis To Ailsa Rock Meg Merrilies A Song about Myself A Galloway Song The Gadfly Of Late Two Dainties Were before Me Plac'd Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns' Country Ben Nevis: A Dialogue Stanzas on Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, Near Inverness Translated from Ronsard The C...

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...) “The free speech of Socrates was muted in ancient Athens, when his gadfly bite forced those who were able—to think. So he drank the hemlock...

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...as another important person in the founding of our country because of his gadfly stinging of the intellectual populace toward revolution with his pam...

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... was the sketch General Ople, in his madness from the pursuing bite of the gadfly, handed about at Mrs. Pollington’s lawn-party. Some have said, that ...

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...of Famine. Purganax, Dakry, Laoctonos—wizards, ministers of Swellfoot. The Gadfly. The Leech. The Rat. Moses, the Sow-Gelder. Solomon, the Porkman. Ze... ...full of ugly shapes _150 I chose a leech, a gadfly, and a rat. The Gadfly was the same which Juno sent To agitate Io, a... ...schylus.—Shelley ’s note. Line 153 (Ezekiel) And the Lord whistled for the gadfly out of Aethiopia, and for the bee of Egypt, etc.—Ezekiel.— Shelley’s... ... _175 This Gadfly should drive Iona hither? PUR PUR PUR PUR PURGANAX: GANAX: GANAX: GA... ...R PUR PURGANAX: GANAX: GANAX: GANAX: GANAX: Ha! what do I hear? [Enter the Gadfly.] MAMMON: MAMMON: MAMMON: MAMMON: MAMMON: Your Gadfly, as it seems, ... ...ON: Your Gadfly, as it seems, is tired of gadding. GADFL GADFL GADFL GADFL GADFLY Y Y Y Y: : : : : Hum! hum! hum! ... ..., dull beetle, get thee back to hell! _270 [T o the Gadfly.] To sting the ghosts of Babylonian kings, And the ox-headed Io— SWI... ... _350 As calumny is worse than death,—for here The Gadfly’s venom, fifty times distilled, Is mingled with the vomit of the Lee...

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...whither his feet bore on his impetuous soul. And as when a bull stung by a gadfly tears along, leaving the meadows and the marsh land, and recks not o... ... grey mist, causing confusion, as when against graz ing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese. And quickly beneath the lintel in th...

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...s in the days before Mesmer. Always yours, Bouvard. Stung like a lion by a gadfly the old scientist rushed to Paris and left his card on Bouvard, who ...

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... the shoulder, aimed and fired. Septimius felt, as it were, the sting of a gadfly passing across his temple, as the Englishman’s 26 Septimius Felton ...

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...lquin’s family life, observing Vilquin, irritating Vilquin,— in short, the gadfly of all the Vilquins. Every morning, when he looked out of his window...

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...hey fled to the other end of the court like a herd of cattle maddened by the gadfly in early summer when the days are at their longest. As eagle beake...

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...party should break up drew to its close, his impatience harried him like a gadfly. He took long drives over the lonely country roads, or tramped the h...

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... that Paccard says the other cannot possibly be an Englishman.” “We have a gadfly behind us,” said Carlos. “I will not leave till the day after to-mor...

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...orments. It came to be a fixed idea in the Duke’s mind that Mr Slide was a gadfly sent to the earth for the express pur- pose of worrying him. And as ...

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...r like me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by the God; and the state is like a great and ... ...ions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the state and all day long and in all places a... ...the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you gives you another gadfly. And that I am given to you by God is proved by this: that if I ...

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...for him! He thought the office of the ordinary daily preacher cowlike. His gadfly stung him to warn, dictate, prognosticate; he was the oracle and mar...

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...team Of oxen ‘neath the yoke band straining hard, What time the sharp fanged gadfly stings their flanks Athirst for blood, and they in frenzy of pain ...

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... themselves; the gloomy flame of living pyres. Passion for power: the wicked gadfly which is mounted on the vainest peoples; the scorner of all uncert...

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...l taken as a whole) is least capable of doing what she desires; there is a gadfly which goads her, and she is full of trouble and remorse? Plato’s Th...