The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: LecturesIngersoll, 1900 |
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Seite 40 - Act of Macbeth. When the King and Banquo approach the castle in which the King is to be murdered that night, no shadow falls athwart the threshold. So beautiful is the scene that the King says : "This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.
Seite 31 - Methought I heard a voice cry: Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep; the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nouruher in life's feast.
Seite 56 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks ; Infusing him with self and vain conceit,— As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable ; and, humour'd thus. Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and—farewell king I"
Seite 94 - Tarn O'Shanter : But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed, Or, like the snow falls in the river, A moment white—then melts forever; " Or, like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place; Or, like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.
Seite 90 - literature of the world, is a description of the poor cotter going from his labor to his home : At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an age"d tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin', stacher through To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin
Seite 486 - The loth verse is as follows: " Then Jesus said unto them, ' Be not afraid; go tell my brethren that they go unto Galilee and there shall they see me.' " The 16th verse: " Then the eleven disciples went away unto Galilee into a mountain, where Jesus had appointed them." The story about the soldiers contained in the
Seite 149 - ballot to the bullet." He draws a comparison between the white men against us and the black men for us: "And then there will be some black men who can remember that with silent tongue and clenched teeth and steady eye and well-poised bayonet they have helped mankind on to this great consummation ; while I fear there
Seite 90 - O happy love! where love like this is found? O heart-felt raptures! bliss beyond compare! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare One cordial in this melancholy vale, Is there in
Seite 133 - cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it
Seite 92 - Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'? Should auld acquaintance be forgot. And days o' auld lang syne ? Wherever those who speak the English language assemble—wherever the Anglo-Saxon people meet with clasp and smile—these words are given to the air. SCOTCH DRINK. The poet of good Scotch drink, of merry