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Page 29 - warming of the blood . . . . the sherris warms it and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme : it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart,
Page 59 - “Then straight commands that at the warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions be uprear'd His mighty standard; that proud honour claim'd Azazel as his right, a cherub tall; Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurled Th'imperial ensign, which full high
Page 115 - shades, till the eastern heaven Bursts, and then, as clouds of even, Flecked with fire and azure, lie In the unfathomable sky. So their plumes of purple grain, Starred with drops of golden rain, Gleam above the sunlight woods, As in silent multitudes On the morning's fitful gale
Page 59 - Th'imperial ensign, which full high advanc't Shon like a meteor streaming to the wind, With gems and golden lustre rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms and trophies; all the while Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds.”
Page 29 - it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart,
Page 51 - Eden: “Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.” (iv, 73—75).
Page 29 - “Indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man: one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love.”
Page 463 - “Then I suppose we'll have a council of regency, and a tutor- for the young prince,. . .“ —Rudyard Kipling, ‘ Mine own People ‘ (At the End of the Passage). (H 8.) “ Little George Washington went to a school taught by a man named Hobby.” “ The first school I remember was taught by the regular old dame of
Page 51 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.”
Page 467 - I ran into Strickland's room and asked him whether- he was ill and had been calling for me . . . ‘ I thought you'd come,' he said. ‘ Have I been walking around the house at all'? “ I explained that he had been in the diningroom and the smokingroom and two or three other