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207 psl. - cruelly, cynically cold in analysing the ashes of disgust : Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action ; and, till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust ; Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight ; Past reason hunted ; and, no sooner had, Past reason hated
63 psl. - occasions, but it may well be doubted whether any novel starts quite so happily as this : "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
279 psl. - the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts : and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs.
56 psl. - I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress." It is not surprising in the light of this to find that she has nothing in common with a great moral teacher like Dostoievsky ; her religion never obtrudes itself into her writings ; she
238 psl. - I lingered under that benign sky : watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
54 psl. - in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
216 psl. - You will see Coleridge—he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair— A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.
102 psl. - Twould ring the bells of Heaven, The wildest peal for years, If parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind pit ponies, And little hunted hares.
169 psl. - do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead—who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design
203 psl. - About the dead hour o' the night She heard the bridles ring ; And Janet was as glad at that As any earthly thing. And first gaed by the black, black steed, And syne gaed by the brown ; But fast she gript the milk-white steed And pu'd the rider down. They shaped him in

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