"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives…
Closed securely. Thus we say, “My lips are hermetically sealed,” meaning so as not to utter a word of what has been imparted. The French say close-fitting doors and windows “shut…
(pron. He'-se-kasts). The “Quietists” of the East in the fourteenth century. The placed perfection in contemplation. (Greek, hesuchia, quiet.) (See Gibbon, Roman Empire, lxiii.) Milton…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Eyes: A FragmentPoems from St. Irvyne, or, the...Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire Published by Shelley, 1810. A Reprint, edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D…
Scene IIIDunsinane. A room in the castleEnter Macbeth, Doctor, and AttendantsMacbethBring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear…
The Centenarian's Story [Volunteer of 1861-2, at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting
the Centenarian.]
Give me your hand old Revolutionary,
The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (…
Scene IVBefore the walls of AthensTrumpets sound. Enter Alcibiades with his powersAlcibiadesSound to this coward and lascivious town
Our terrible approach. [A parley sounded]Enter Senators on…
Daniel Chapter 7 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters…
Tom Thumb A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long…
Ashputtel The wife of a rich man fell sick; and when she felt that her end drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bed-side, and said, 'Always be a good girl, and I will look down from…
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