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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth: A Historical Play

By: William Shakespeare

... The Noble Spirits to Armes, they did performe [t3v 80 Beyond thoughts Compasse, that former fabulous Storie 81 Being now seene, po... ... If (quoth he) I for this had beene committed, 545 As to the Tower, I thought; I would haue plaid 546 The Part my Father meant to act vpon ... ...rd]. Sands, and Louell. 675 O my Lord, y’are tardy; 676 The very thought of this faire Company, 677 Clapt wings to me. 678 Cha...

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The Tragedie of Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare

...l him 296 How I would thinke on him at certaine houres, 297 Such thoughts, and such: Or I could make him sweare, 298 The Shees of Italy... ...elfe, and knowes it not. 874 1. There’s an Italian come, and ’tis thought one of 875 Leonatus Friends. 876 Clot. Leonatus? A b... ...et view on’t 1349 Might well haue warm’d olde Saturne; 1350 That I thought her 1351 As Chaste, as vn- Sunn’d Snow. Oh, all the Diuels! 13...

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The Second Part of Henry the Fourth

By: William Shakespeare

... Whil’st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, 17 Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre, 18 And no such matt... ...urnes Insurrection to Religion, 261 Suppos’d sincere, and holy in his Thoughts: - 6 - The Second Part of Henry the Fourth Shakespeare: First Fol... ... L.Bar. I marry, there’s the point: 520 But if without him we be thought to feeble, 521 My iudgement is, we should not step too farre ...

...e World: And who but Rumour, who but onely I Make fearfull Musters, and prepar?d Defence, Whil?st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre, And no such matter? Rumour, is a Pipe Blowne by Surmises, Ielousies, Conjectures; And of so easie, and so plaine a stop, That the blunt Monster, with uncounted heads, The stil...

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The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books

By: William Wordsworth

...ter than a wandering cloud I cannot miss my way. I breathe again— Trances of thought and mountings of the mind 20 Come fast upon me. It is shaken off,... ..., Brings with it vernal promises, the hope 50 Of active days, of dignity and thought, Of prowess in an honorable field, Pure passions, virtue, knowledg... ...ng 70 To a green shady place where down I sate Beneath a tree, slackening my thoughts by choice And settling into gentler happiness. ’Twas autumn, and... ...th after month. Obscurely did I live, 20 Not courting the society of men, By literature, or elegance, or rank, Distinguished—in the midst of things, i...

...ts own liberty, I look about, and should the guide I chuse Be nothing better than a wandering cloud I cannot miss my way. I breathe again--Trances of thought and mountings of the mind Come fast upon me. It is shaken off, As by miraculous gift ?tis shaken off, That burthen of my own unnatural self, The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for...

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The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner : Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-Inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself, With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'D by Pyrates

By: Daniel Defoe

... not bred to any Trade, my Head began to be fill’d very early with rambling Thoughts: My Father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent Share o... ...y first Heat of Resolution prompted, but I took my Mother, at a time when I thought her a little pleasanter than ordinary, and told her, that my Though... ...e would have swallowed us up, and that every time the Ship fell down, as I thought, in the Trough or Hollow of the Sea, we should never rise more; and...

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Samson Agonistes

By: John Milton

...ets, both to adorn and illustrate thir discourse. The Apostle Paul himself thought it not unworthy to insert a verse of Euripedes into the Text of... ...between. Heretofore Men in highest dignity have labour’d not a little to be thought able to compose a Tragedy. Of that honour Dionysius the elder wa... ...h what he had begun, left it unfinisht. Seneca the Philosopher is by some thought the Author of those Tragedies (at lest the best of them) that go ...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...sing.” “I’m not sure even of that, since he has driven her from the field. We thought at first that the sister mentioned might be the sister of the cler... ... it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of those gentlemen your father?” “Yes, t... ...d a bill. Isabel of course knew nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behin... ...o absent from her knowledge, for she had gathered from her acquaintance with literature that it was often a source of interest and even of instruction... ...t the girl would distinguish herself in print. Mrs. Varian thought highly of literature, for which she entertained that esteem that is connected with ... ...ent of one of the Miss Varians. Practically, Mrs. Varian’s acquaintance with literature was confined to The New York Interviewer; as she very justly sa...

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The Tragedie of Othello, The Moore of Venice

By: William Shakespeare

... 181 How didst thou know ’twas she? (Oh she deceaues me 182 Past thought:) what said she to you? Get moe Tapers. 183 Raise all my Kindr... ...itie 207 Sometime to do me seruice. Nine, or ten times 208 I had thought t’haue yerk’d him here vnder the Ribbes. 209 Othello. ’Tis... ...gether lackes th’ abilities 356 That Rhodes is dress’d in. If we make thought of this, 357 We must not thinke the Turke is so vnskillfull, ...

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The Winters Tale

By: William Shakespeare

... Leo. Tongue- ty’d our Queene? speake you. 84 Her. I had thought (Sir) to haue held my peace, vntill 85 You had drawne Oathes ... ...ngs then? 124 Pol. We were (faire Queene) 125 Two Lads, that thought there was no more behind, 126 But such a day to morrow, as to ... ... harder bosomes? Looking on the Lynes [Aa2 233 Of my Boyes face, me thoughts I did requoyle 234 Twentie three yeeres, and saw my selfe vn-...

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The Life of Henry the Fifth

By: William Shakespeare

...rrow Ocean parts asunder. 24 Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts: 25 Into a thousand parts diuide one Man, 26 And make... ...Printing their prowd Hoofes i’th’ receiuing Earth: 29 For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our Kings, 30 Carry them here and there:... ...But how my Lord shall we resist it now? 45 Bish.Cant. It must be thought on: if it passe against vs, 46 We loose the better halfe of o... ... Flu. Gower is a good Captaine, and is good know-ledge 2680 and literatured in the Warres. 2681 King. Call him hither to me, Souldi...

... two mightie Monarchies, Whose high, up- reared, and abutting Fronts, The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder. Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one Man, And make imaginarie Puissance. Thinke when we talke of Horses, that you see them Printing their prowd Hoofes i?th? receiving Earth: For ?tis your thoughts that now must deck our...

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A Christmas Carol : In Prose

By: Charles Dickens

...see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. The ... ... returned the nephew: “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the venera... ..., and livery. Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention of his seven year’s dead partne...

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The Life of Tymon of Athens

By: William Shakespeare

...56 As I can bid thee speake. [857 Ste. Assurance blesse your thoughts. 858 Tim. And in some sort these wants of mine are crown’... ...can sinke. 913 Stew. I would I could not thinke it: 914 That thought is Bounties Foe; 915 Being free it selfe, it thinkes all other... ... proue an Argument of Laughter 1096 To th’ rest, and ’mong’st Lords be thought a Foole: 1097 I’de rather then the worth of thrice the summe, ...

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Areopagitica

By: John Milton

...em swayed most, but that the very attempt of this address thus made, and the thought of whom it hath recourse to, hath got the power within me to a pa... ...t me not equal to any of those who had this privilege, I would obtain to be thought not so inferior, as yourselves are superior to the most of the... ...r of these particulars. But that other clause of Licensing Books, which we thought had died with his brother quadragesimal and matrimonial when th...

... likely might in these foremost expressions now also disclose which of them swayed most, but that the very attempt of this address thus made, and the thought of whom it hath recourse to, hath got the power within me to a passion, far more welcome than incidental to a preface....

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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

...id he. ‘However, our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes. I thought you might perhaps know something of it all the while.’ ‘Well, I hav... ...d, after a pause. ‘Oh — nothing, nothing; except chasten yourself with the thought of “how are the mighty fallen.” It is a fact of some interest to th... ....’ Phase the First — The Maiden 5 ‘To be sure — I’d quite forgot it in my thoughts of greater things! Well, vamp on to Marlott, will ye, and order th...

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The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida

By: William Shakespeare

...ams Royall Table doe I sit; 64 And when faire Cressid comes into my thoughts, 65 So (Traitor) then she comes, when she is thence. 66 ... ... now Pandarus? 104 Pan. I haue had my Labour for my trauell, ill thought 105 on of her, and ill thought on of you: Gone betweene and 1... ...d thwart, not answering the ayme: 471 And that vnbodied figure of the thought 472 That gaue’t surmised shape. Why then (you Princes) 473 ...

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The Tragedie of King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

... 2 Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. 3 Kent. 4 I thought the King had more affected the 5 Duke of Albany, then Corn... ...Come not betweene the Dragon and his wrath, 131 I lou’d her most, and thought to set my rest - 3 - The Tragedie of King Lear Shakespeare: First ... ... Lou’d as my Father, as my Master follow’d, 151 As my great Patron thought on in my praiers. 152 Le. The bow is bent & drawne, make f...

...Excerpt: The Tragedie of King Lear; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany, then Cornwall. Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to us: But now in the division of the Kingdome, it appeares not which of the Dukes hee valewes most, for qualities are so wei...

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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

...awned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to ... ...and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well. But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across one of his fields on a c... ...ming. He was not yet in sight; and her eyes crept back to the package, her thoughts seeming to run ’upon what was inside it. At length she drew the ar...

... of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered ra...

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The Bostonians

By: Henry James

...er to Mrs. Luna. His dishonesty, however, only exposed him the more. ‘If you thought I lived in New York, why in the world didn’t you come and see me?... ...t my dressing in the evening!’ she declared from the doorway. ‘The amount of thought they give to their clothing, the people who are afraid of looking... ... from a long embankment on the left, constructed of stones roughly piled. He thought this prospect, from a city house, almost romantic; and he turned ... ...e fact that he himself had mastered the tongue (knowing it contained a large literature of jurisprudence) during a long, empty, deadly summer on the p... ... he did generally, of terms of op probrium extracted from the older English literature. He had seen Tarrant, or his equivalent, often before; he had ... ...arrants had been a house of reading; but the girl now traversed the fields of literature with 138 The Bostonians her characteristic lightness of step....

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The First Part of Henry the Sixth. Edited by Louise Pound

By: William Shakespeare

...hy doubtst thou of my forwardnesse? 112 An Army haue I muster’d in my thoughts, 113 Wherewith already France is ouer- run. 114 Enter an... ...e houres the fight continued: 133 Where valiant Talbot, aboue humane thought, 134 Enacted wonders with his Sword and Lance. 135 Hundre... ... This Day is ours, as many more shall be. Exit. 614 Talb. My thoughts are whirled like a Potters Wheele, 615 I know not where I am,...

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The Prelude Or, Growth of a Poets Mind

By: William Wordsworth

...er than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way. I breathe again! Trances of thought and mountings of the mind Come fast upon me: it is shaken off, 20... ...ive days urged on by flying hours,— Days of sweet leisure, taxed with patient thought Abstruse, nor wanting punctual service high, Matins and vespers o... ...gth, To a green shady place, where down I sate Beneath a tree, slackening my thoughts by choice And settling into gentler happiness. ’Twas autumn, and... ...e, 25 Not seeking frequent intercourse with men, RESIDENCE IN FRANCE 145 By literature, or elegance, or rank, Distinguished. Scarcely was a year thus...

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