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HBL Quotes

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show “Ozymandius”  
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“Day after day, day after day,/ We stuck, nor breath nor motion;/ As idle as a painted ship/ Upon a painted ocean.”   show
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show “Ode to the West Wind”  
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“The best laid schemes of mice and men/ Gang aft a-gley,/ An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain/ For promised joy.”   show
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“Then I felt like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into his ken;/ Or like a stout Cortez when with eagle eyes/ he stared at the Pacific.”   show
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“...when first/ I came among these hills, when like a roe,/ I bounded o’er the mountains… more like a man/ Flying from something he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved”   show
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show “Ode to a Nightingale”  
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“When old age shall this generation waste,/Thou shalt remain...a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,/Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”   show
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show “Ode to the West Wind”  
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show “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”  
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,/And many goodly states and kingdoms seen…”   show
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“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,/The furrow followed free;/We were the first that ever burst/Into that silent sea.”   show
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show “On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth”  
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“Infected be the air whereon they ride/ And damned all those that trust them.”   show
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show Macbeth; clothing imagery  
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show macbeth; deceptive appearances  
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“...Sons, kinsmen, thanes,/and those whose places are the nearest know,/ We will establish our estate upon/Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter/ The Prince of Cumberland.”   show
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show Macbeth; equivocation, MACduff is not born of woman  
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show Macbeth  
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show Macbeth; irony, MACBETH later kills Duncan  
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show Macbeth; influence of the supernatural  
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“Whither shall I fly?/ I have done no harm. But I remember now./ I am in this earthly world, where to do harm/ Is often laudable, to do good sometimes/ Accounted a dangerous folly…”   show
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"But, tis strange;/ And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,/ The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray's/ In deepest consequence."   show
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“After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy and ineffectual.”   show
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“What dire offense from amorous causes springs,/What might contests rise from trivial things.”   show
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show “Alexander Selkirk”  
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show “Elegy Written in a Churchyard”  
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show “Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat”  
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“He mourned heartily, as it was easy to see, but with a kind of masculine giref that could not give itself vent by tears; and calmly defying buriers to let him alone, said he would only see the bodies thrown in and go away…”   show
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“...was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patron age of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelters of academic bowers, but amidst the inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow.”   show
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“Here we rest his head upon the lap of the earth,/ A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown;/Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,/And Melancholy marked him for her own.”   show
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“Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river, or bringing them to lighters that lay off; poor people staying with their houses as till the very --- touched them…”   show
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show “A Modest Proposal”  
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“...was not please if something better than a plain dinner was prepared for him. I have heard him say on such an occasion, ‘That was a good dinner enough, to be sure: but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”   show
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“This casket India’s gems unlocks;/And all Arabia breathes from yonder box./There tortoise here and the elephant unite,/Transformed to combs, the speckled and the white.”   show
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show “Will Wimble”  
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show “Letter to Chesterfield”  
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show MoC  
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“Now I am not a man to let a cause be lost for want of a word. And before ye are gone forever I’ll speak. Once more, Will ye stay?There it is, full and plain. You can see that it isn’t all selfishness that makes me press’ee…”   show
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show MoC  
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“Twas on a s-m-r aftern-n,/ A wee br-re the sun w-nt d-w,/ When Kitty wi’a brau n-w g-wn/ C-me ow’re the h-lls to Gowrie.”   show
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show MoC  
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“Well I had a reason. ‘Twill be out one day. I wish it could have been in my time! But there-- nothing is as you wish it! Henchard hates him!”   show
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“Now what do you think of this: I shall want someone to live in my house, partly as a housekeeper, partly as a companion; would you mind coming to me?”   show
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“I’ll sell her for five guineas to any man that will pay me the money and treat her well…”   show
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“Tis me! A procession- a scandal- an effigy of me, and him!”   show
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show MoC  
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“Turned into a savage. Having young ones like an animal...If it hadn’t been for you, I might have gone to the Inspector, I might have gotten away. But with a baby. That would have been too shameful”   show
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show BNW  
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“I always illustrate my lectures with a lot of technical examples. This time I thought I’d give them one I’d just written myself. Pure madness, of course, but I couldn’t resist”   show
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show BNW  
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