CHAPTER LXVII.
Now is there civil war within the soul:Resolve is thrust from off the sacred throneBy clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand-vizierMakes humble compact, plays...
CHAPTER LXVI.
’Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,Another thing to fall.—Measure for Measure. § Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his practice...
CHAPTER LXV.
One of us two must bowen douteless,And, sith a man is more reasonableThan woman is, ye [men] moste be suffrable.—CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales. § The bias of...
CHAPTER LXIV.
1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or...
BOOK VII. TWO TEMPTATIONS. CHAPTER LXIII.
These little things are great to little man.—GOLDSMITH. § “Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately?” said Mr. Toller at one of his...
CHAPTER LXII.
He was a squyer of lowe degre,That loved the king’s daughter of Hungrie.—Old Romance. § Will Ladislaw’s mind was now wholly bent on seeing Dorothea again,...
CHAPTER LXI.
“Inconsistencies,” answered Imlac, “cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true.”—Rasselas. § The same night, when Mr. Bulstrode returned...
CHAPTER LX.
Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.—Justice Shallow. § A few days afterwards—it was already the end of August—there was an occasion...
CHAPTER LIX.
“They said of old the Soul had human shape,But smaller, subtler than the fleshly self,So wandered forth for airing when it pleased.And see! beside her...
CHAPTER LVIII.
“For there can live no hatred in thine eye,Therefore in that I cannot know thy change:In many’s looks the false heart’s historyIs writ in moods and frowns...
CHAPTER LVII.
They numbered scarce eight summers when a name Rose on their souls and stirred such motions thereAs thrill the buds and shape their hidden frame At...
CHAPTER LVI.
“How happy is he born and taughtThat serveth not another’s will;Whose armor is his honest thought,And simple truth his only skill!. . . . . . .This man is...
CHAPTER LV.
Hath she her faults? I would you had them too.They are the fruity must of soundest wine;Or say, they are regenerating fireSuch as hath turned the dense black...
BOOK VI. THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE. CHAPTER LIV.
“Negli occhi porta la mia donna Amore;Per che si fa gentil ciò ch’ella mira:Ov’ella passa, ogni uom ver lei si gira,E cui saluta fa tremar lo core.Sicchè,...
CHAPTER LIII.
It is but a shallow haste which concludeth insincerity from what outsiders call inconsistency—putting a dead mechanism of “ifs” and “therefores” for the...
CHAPTER LII.
“His heartThe lowliest duties on itself did lay.”—WORDSWORTH. § On that June evening when Mr. Farebrother knew that he was to have the Lowick living, there...
CHAPTER LI.
Party is Nature too, and you shall seeBy force of Logic how they both agree:The Many in the One, the One in Many;All is not Some, nor Some the same as...
CHAPTER L.
“This Loller here wol precilen us somewhat.”“Nay by my father’s soule! that schal he nat,”Sayde the Schipman, ‘here schal he not preche,We schal no gospel...
CHAPTER XLIX.
“A task too strong for wizard spellsThis squire had brought about;’T is easy dropping stones in wells,But who shall get them out?” § “I wish to God we could...
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Surely the golden hours are turning grayAnd dance no more, and vainly strive to run:I see their white locks streaming in the wind—Each face is haggard as it...