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...fer, not thy asking? The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. W... ... shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show;... ...t did desire To you alone. MARCELLUS: Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground: But do not go with it. HORA... ...how infinite in faculty! in form and mov ing how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of ... ...o blame in this,— ’Tis too much proved—that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself. KING CLAUDIUS : [Aside] ... ...h and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.—Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my s...

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...cuffs of your jacket, and don’t cry into your gruel; that’s a very foolish action, Oliver.’ It certainly was, for there was quite enough water in it a... ... expres sively; and curled up as much of his small red nose as mus cular action could collect together, for the occasion. 43 OLIVER TWIST ‘Yer know... ... yet the self same senses were mentally engaged, at the same time, in busy action with almost every body he had ever known. When the coffee was done,... ... drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.... ...wed respectfully; and advancing to the magistrate’s desk, said suiting the action to the word, ‘That is my name and address, sir.’ He then withdrew a ... ...re often—it is no uncommon case—died, and to repair the misery he had been instrumental in occasioning, left him his panacea for all griefs—Money. It ...

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...ulgar curios- ity. There was one man, however, who, by his countenance and actions, formed a marked exception to those who com- posed the latter class... ...crown of his head, in a manner so significant, that none who witnessed the action could mistake its meaning. “Surely, surely, our case is not so despe... ...ted to the river, and made them acquainted with the result, as much by the action as by the few words he uttered. When the fact was generally under- s... ..., he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seducing him from his duty to the king. For though the Fren... ... there; read our fortunes in their faces; we shall see; we shall see!” The action, and the choked utterance of Cora, spoke more impressively than any ... ...n always illustrates his eloquence. At first, the language, as well as the action of Magua, ap- peared calm and deliberative. When he had succeeded in...

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...papers. We talked of swaying opinion and moving great classes to mas- sive action. Men are egotistical even in devotion. All our splendid projects wer... ...as about as much civilised, about as much tamed to the ideas of collective action and mutual consider- ation as a Central African negro. There are hor... ...t at self-control, and withal fully prepared as soon as he had cleared for action to give me just all that he considered to be the contents of his min... ...Bottle- Imp running us,” he said hastily, and would hear of no con- certed action for the end he had in view. “I’d rather not have the extension. “You... ...e; she remained in her attitude, it did not flow out to easy, confirmatory action. 164 The New Machiavelli I saw this quite clearly, and when we walk... ... things moved to- wards a day of reckoning with Germany, and I was largely instrumental in keeping up the suggestion that India was in a state of unst...

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.... With all that was highest, whether in society or in thought or in public action, or even in art, she was at one, she moved among the foremost, at ho... ...able—’ Hermione clenched her fist like one in a trance—’of any spontaneous action, always deliberate, al- ways burdened with choice, never carried awa... ...s pornography—looking at yourself in mir- rors, watching your naked animal actions in mirrors, so that you can have it all in your consciousness, make... ... on the brink of discussion, sniffed the air with delight and prepared for action. ‘Not necessarily,’ he said. ‘But isn’t education really like gymnas... ...washing the feet of Christ, or else he is making obscene drawings of Jesus—action and reaction—and between the two, nothing. He is really insane. He w... ...king fixedly into the darkness, very keen and alert and single in himself, instrumental. Her heart sank, she seemed to die a death. ‘Of course,’ she s... ... no use keeping her there. Get lines for the dragging,’ came the decisive, instrumental voice, that was full of the sound of the world. The launch beg... .... His vision had suddenly crystallised. Suddenly he had conceived the pure instrumentality of mankind. There had been so much humanitarianism, so much...

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...them to claim their rights; but he had now begun to feel that the time for action was not ripe in England, and that the pen was the only instrument wh... ...gs, The blood and life within those snowy fingers T each witchcraft to the instrumental strings. My brain is wild, my breath comes quick— ... ..., Wordsworth, Moore and Byron. His life was now spent more in thought than action—he had lost the eager spirit which believed it could achieve what it... ... _15 Fly me, and from the glory of my ray 141 Shelley Good minds and open actions take new might, Until diminished by the reign of Night. 4. 4. 4. 4....

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...e old dark closet, where the steady pendu lum throbs and beats with healthy action, though the pulse of him who made it stood still long ago, and nev... ... there, I was in terror lest by some tre mendous interposition it should be instrumental in the discovery; if a breath of air sighed across it, to me... ...ng Mr. Pickwick by the arm and put ting him into the carriage; but his last action was to let down the window and wave his hat to me as it drove off.... ... to serve for a kind of shield without offering any im pediment to its free action, suffered them to lead the way. Through mud and mire, and wind and...

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...ere sure to be quickly known there, and that she was as near the centre of action in Flanders as in Durham, besides that she would be out of reach of ... ...followed the rest of the story, and when it appeared that Grisell had been instrumental in saving Copeland, and close inquiries elicited that she had ...

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...n. She knew her voice was past singing, and began one of her most renowned instrumental pieces, which she could play as mechanically as a musical-box.... ...ate—and was not Dr. May one in everything with the clergy? had he not been instrumental in building the chapel? was it not the Mays and the clergy who... ...house. She slipped out and hurried down a narrow path towards the scene of action, presently becoming aware of four figures before her, which her glas... ... May. But Dr. May was more implacable than all the rest. He called Henry’s action the deed of Joseph’s brethren, and viewed the matter as the responsi... ... excitement, but unable to en- dure the notion of approaching the scene of action; and his half-choked surly ‘Don’t’ was sufficient to deter his broth... ... shall have a lift as far as the cross roads.’ Thus the morning began with action and with hope. Mary found herself very welcome at the Grange, where ... ..., and the friendship so bravely avouched; had asked the particulars of the action to which Leonard had alluded, and shown himself much interested in a...

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...tter of personal choice. More and more, as he grew older, he avoided every action on his part, and on the part of his family, that might tend to keep ... ...essibly graceful figures, their softly moul- ded limbs, and free unstudied action, seemed as strange as beautiful. The Dolly was fairly captured; and ... ...s time we had arranged all the preliminaries, and decided upon our plan of action. We then ratified our engagement with an affectionate wed- ding of p... ...s with which I came in contact, and, rising to my feet again, repeated the action with like effect. T wenty minutes of this violent exercise almost ex... ...or a few moments he was as much puzzled as myself to tell by what possible instrumentality such a vil- lainous compound had become engendered in his b... ...ut as I grew more composed, I upbraided myself for imputing so cowardly an action to him, and tranquillized myself with the belief that he had availed... ...ing a light; whilst a 135 Melville poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is ... ...ence a low, dismal and monotonous chant, accompa- nying the voice with the instrumental melody produced by two small half-rotten sticks tapped slowly ...

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... and which they restore to the soul through the mysterious and wonder- ful action and reaction between thought and speech. Might we not speak of it as... ...rred all his ac- tivities to thinking, as others throw all their life into action. A strong bias drew his mind into mystical studies. “Abyssus abyssum... ...m. If, for lack of a lucid apprecia- tion of his destiny, he allows bodily action to predominate, instead of confirming his intellectual being, all hi... ...not the amiability and kindliness that marked his feelings, his words, his actions, his slightest gestures, the conjugal re- gard that united us as bo... ...tions. “But if we go further into details: either the facts are due to the action of a faculty which brings out a second being to whom my body is mere... ...el it. He shared with me all the treasures of his mind, and regarded me as instrumental in his discoveries, leaving me the credit of my insignificant ...

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... he’d give the shirt off his back to a poor man; he is incapable of a base action, and to cheat a family out of their inheritance is—” 10 Ursula “The... ...Revolution slew. Minoret knew Robespierre intimately, for he had once been instrumental in awarding him a gold medal for a dissertation on the fol- lo... ...e porch as he passed along, and he stopped short amazed at her beauty. His action also stopped the advance of the relations who accompanied him. In gi... ...nce rather than the demands of social law. In her, nobility of feeling and action would ever be spontaneous; her judgment would confirm the impulse of... ...cence, they ex- plained to her the reasons of things and the best means of action, taking care to give her none but correct ideas. When, apropos of a ... ... car- tomancy, and the horoscope; the facts of catalepsy, and those of the action of certain morbid affections on the properties of the diaphragm,—all...

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...im: but there your husband stands my friend; and the kindest, most amiable action of his life was his throwing her off for ever on her marriage. Keep ... ...ing over a mind prepared to dislike me, and prejudiced against all my past actions. His sister, too, is, I hope, convinced how little the ungenerous r... ...o tell me about your disagree- ment with my brother?” “It originated in an action of my daughter’s, which equally marks her want of judgment and the u... ...s- tened; and I make it my particular request that I may not in any way be instrumental in separating a family so af- fectionately attached to each ot... ... that project in execution; for London will be always the fairest field of action, however my views may be directed; and at any rate I shall there be ...

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...e ground that Miss Matthews’s story is too closely connected with the main action to be fairly called an episode) and of introductory dissertations ha... ... they beheld a man prostrate on the ground, whose heavy groans and frantic actions plainly indicated the highest disorder of mind. This person was, it... ...n my eyes, I have money enough to buy it off as well as the lady herself.” Action might perhaps soon have ensued this speech, had not the keeper inter... ...h in her hear- ing.” “Good heavens!” cried Miss Matthews; “what detestable actions will this contemptible passion of envy prevail on our sex to commit... ...putation, were all concerned in this matter, to which, as he had been made instrumental, he was resolved to carry her through it; and then, taking the... ... a better. And yet, inadequate as the simile is, we may, I think, from the actions of mankind, conclude that they will consider it as much too strong;... ...esign from it. In truth, he began to conceive hopes of making the serjeant instrumental to his design on Amelia; in other words, to convert him into a... ... That, T urnus, this auspicious day bestows.” 535 Henry Fielding instrumental in bringing on Booth and his family. The next day Booth and hi...

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...t and hold my hand over a hot chafing—dish, to represent more forcibly the action of that determined Roman. My brother, who was seven years older than... ...d from that time have never seen them. The vilest inclinations, the basest actions, succeeded my amiable amuse- ments and even obliterated the very re... ...how there are moments of delirium when men ought not to be judged by their actions: this was not stealing the money, it was only stealing the use of i... ...sed myself; compassion was painted on her features, and expressed by every action. She could not exhort me to return to Geneva, being too well aware t... ...not exhort me to return to Geneva, being too well aware that her words and actions were strictly scrutinized, and that such advice would be thought hi... ... af- firmed that my mode of notation was good for vocal music, but bad for instrumental; instead of concluding as they ought to have done, that it was... ... they ought to have done, that it was good for vocal, and still better for instrumental. On their report the academy granted me a cer- tificate full o...

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...if the world neglected Miss Sharp, she never was known to have done a good action in behalf of anybody; nor can it be expected that twenty-four young ... ...ps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and gentility will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do... ...very elements (although she was not inclined at first to acknowledge their action in her behalf) interposed to aid her. For on the evening appointed f... ... own part; and accordingly, being a left-handed man, brought that arm into action, and hit out a couple of times with all his might—once at Mr. Cuff’s... ...er fool than he is. That’s why I told him to look out, lest she brought an action against him.” “I suppose you know best,” Dobbin said, though rather ... ...d history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, without the aid of a master; and in the elements ...

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...on who was Advocate-General. We resolved that one among us should bring an action against him. After trying in vain to induce the Duc de Rohan, who wa... ...g could never forgive what had taken place, and M. de Noyon, by this grand action, gained only the favour of God and the honour of the world. I must f... ...reak on the 14th M. de Villeroy sent word to M. du Maine to com- mence the action. Impatient that his orders were not obeyed, he sent again five or si... ...een sent: he searched the gazettes of Hol- land; in one he read of a great action said to have been fought, and in which M. du Maine had been grievous... ...which M. du Maine had been grievously wounded; in the next the news of the action was contradicted, and M. du Maine was declared to have received no w... ...w much better it would be to rule affairs in this manner, than through the instrumentality of the ministers of either country. Madame de Maintenon, wh... ...’Egmont, niece of the Archbishop of Aix; the said Arch- bishop having been instrumental in obtaining her recall. The King was at Marly. I was there wi...

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...ofoundly, for he feared that she might interfere with the small liberty of action left to him. She did not, however; and she volunteered no friend- li... ...ted to you; and I trust, Mr. Heldar, you won’t forget that we were largely instrumental in bringing you before the public.’ He panted because of the s... ...d if you worry me when I have settled down to work with any nonsense about actions for as- sault, believe me, I’ll catch you and manhandle you, and yo... ...w pounds to him, but it was everything to me. I don’t think he’ll bring an action. I gave him some medical advice gratis about the state of his body. ... ...t?’ Maisie looked at the wild whirling rush of a field- battery going into action under fire. Two artillery- men stood behind her in the crowd. ‘They’... ...hen.’ Dick felt his way to the one chair he used by custom. Bessie saw the action and, as far as in her lay, was touched. But there remained always a ...

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...pt. Thomas Auld. When I lived with him, I thought him incapable of a noble action. The leading trait in his character was intense selfish- ness. I thi... ...te, Mr. Cookman. It was pretty generally believed that he had been chiefly instrumental in bringing one of the largest slaveholders—Mr. Samuel Harriso... ... gates, and idle away my time, when he sent me to the woods. Suit- ing the action to the word, Covey paced off, in his own wiry fashion, to a large, b... ... life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves. I panted for action, and was glad when the day, at the close of which we were to start, ... ... time had come to act as if we were in earnest, and meant to be as true in action as in words. I did not forget to appeal to the pride of my comrades,... ... else, to make grateful mention of the many dear friends, whose benevolent actions toward me are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory, and warmly treas... ...; long or short his years, many or few his adherents, powerful or weak his instrumentalities, through good report, or through bad report, this is his ... ...derances, and against all delays, and despite all the muta- tions of human instrumentalities, it is the faith of my soul, that this anti-slavery cause...

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...and decoration, while 18 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 his charities and generous actions were hearty and lavish enough to satisfy even his warm-hearted wife... ... neighbours’ property, and ruin their character and good name, by the very actions most foreign to to their nature, ere it had fallen under the strong... ...me for an hour together.’ ‘May it not be for want of a sphere of wholesome action?’ ‘He is not fit for it, Mary. You know I resolved that the whole bu... ...The want of selfishness and vanity seem to take away two common springs of action, but I do believe that patience will bring out something much higher... ...ing the import of each word. All depended on the subduing the inflammatory action, in the side; and there was every reason to hope that he would have ... ...r?’ He smiled upon her tone of veneration, and replied, ‘a trifle—a little instrumental melody was a great resource. If his poor performance would aff...