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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 which caused some excitement in Middlemarch…
“Inconsistencies,” answered Imlac, “cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true.”— Rasselas . The same night, when Mr. Bulstrode returned from a journey to Brassing on business, h…
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, and forthwith quitting Middlemarch. The m…
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 Christmas dinner-parties, speaking to Mr. Fare…
1 st Gent . Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too. 2 d Gent . Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright The coming pest with border fortresses, Or catch your carp with subtle argu…
One of us two must bowen douteless, And, sith a man is more reasonable Than woman is, ye [men] moste be suffrable. —CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales . The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence …
’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 did him in counteracting his personal c…
Now is there civil war within the soul: Resolve is thrust from off the sacred throne By clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand-vizier Makes humble compact, plays the supple part Of envoy and deft-tongu…
What suit of grace hath Virtue to put on If Vice shall wear as good, and do as well? If Wrong, if Craft, if Indiscretion Act as fair parts with ends as laudable? Which all this mighty volume of event…
“If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee.” — Ecclesiasticus . Mr. Bulstrode was still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of the same day on which he had received L…
