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Page 107 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 108 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 108 - Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears - why she, even she (O God!
Page 108 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 214 - Naught rests to hollow — burst the ties Of life's sublime and reverent awe ; Before the vice the virtue flies, And universal crime is law ! Man fears the lion's kingly tread ; Man fears the tiger's fangs of terror ; And still the dreadliest of the dread, Is man himself in error ! No torch, though lit from heaven, illumes The blind ! — Why place it in his hand?
Page 160 - ... glittering diamonds; to welcome me, pure and clear as though bathed in the freshness of morning, came the notes of a bell, and suddenly there rushed by me, driven by the boys I had parted from, the drove of horses, refreshed and rested . . . Sad to say, I must add that in that year Pavel met his end. He was not drowned; he was killed by a fall from his horse.
Page 158 - He was playing on the bank, and his mother was there haymaking; suddenly she hears, as though some one was blowing bubbles through the water, and behold! there was only Vasya's little cap to be seen swimming on the water. You know since then Feklista has not been right in her mind: she goes and lies down at the place where he was drowned; she lies down, brothers, and sings a song ; — you remember Vasya was always singing a song like that, so she sings it too, and weeps and weeps, and bitterly rails...
Page 108 - Frailty, thy name is woman! — A little month, or ere those shoes were old, With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears — why she, even she — O Heaven! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother; but no more like my father, Than I to Hercules.
Page 256 - No, no, I have your word, — I must die: you have promised me — you have told me.' "It was cruel for me — cruel for many reasons. And see what trifling things can do sometimes; it seems nothing at all, but it's painful. It occurred to her to ask me what is my name; not my surname, but my first name. I must needs be so unlucky as to be called Trifon.