Evolution of Expression - Volume 1

TO THE

I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very

gs, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb sho

hat you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to

eatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the g

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falsehoods, but he who does not purposely, and with sincere heart, utter Truth, and Truth alone; who babbles he knows not what, and has clapped no bridle o

ulness); it is the genial atmosphere in which rank weeds of every kind attain the mastery over noble fruits in man's life, and utterly

the man himself. Were eyes put into our head, that we might see, or that we might fancy, and plausibly pretend, we had seen? Was the tongue suspended there, that it might tell truly what we

ssionately entreat thee, till thy thought have silently matured itself, till thou have other than

le to thee! Cease that chaotic hubbub, wherein thy own soul runs to waste, to confused suicidal dislocation and stu

? Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into Time, and grows through all Eternity! The Recording

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AN AND THE

rld;-if wealth

brother;-friends

worthless-witle

been a stable

ood sir, makes

, no doubt, and

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r, Heaven help you

d within him,

intellect of

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:-Why should it

weigh purses, s

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ticed him, an

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this side,

introduce a

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silence-"Bette

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an burst

us rich,

pride himself

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s better; he

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ound to ask hi

HONEST duty

range a sofa

conduct

ir, the hono

arth-Is't pos

for such kind

man hung

himself

ed beyond my

ooking

dly face

tell me why is

at's a silly qu

ther-"have yo

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which rolls

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ks down on o

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cone on the

broken by sp

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heart of the

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as reared up

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burnish

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by her hal

the skylight, f

crippled lad on

n, the plen

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m men, where high

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in the hollows

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t care how light and sound travel. Very likely: but make yourself care; get up, shake yourself well, pretend to care, make believe to care, and very soon you will care, and care so much that you will sit for hours thinking about light and sou

f its asperities. There is nothing so horrible as languid study, when you sit looking at the clock, wishing the time was over, or that somebody would call

hts after the battle of Cannae, and heaping them into bushels; and to be so intimately present at the actions you are reading of that when anybody knocks at the door it will take you t

ot useless: this is the knowledge which gets into the system, and which a man carries about

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V

Lord of Hosts, fr

r

r sovereign lie

va

the merry sound

nc

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land of

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wa

light the eyes o

ght

ant in our ills, b

f and still are t

s an

single field hat

w

for Ivry, and

I

ts were beating,

d

of the League

ra

-led citizens, and

out infantry, and

ea

d of false Lorraine

a

was in the midst,

a

d on them, we th

pled

hoary hair all dabb

the living God,

w

own holy name, an

I

marshal us, in all

a snow white plum

es

s people, and a t

e traitors, and h

hi

he smiled on us,

w

, a deafening sho

the K

rd bearer fall, a

a

promise yet of s

ee my white plume

s of

amme to-day the h

V

are moving. Hark

d, and trump, and

ver

pricking fast ac

ai

ing chivalry of Gu

f those ye love,

an

den lilies-upon th

are striking deep

r

are pressing clos

e cr

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ing

est carnage blaz

va

ed, the day is o

d his

ed for quarter; t

ai

aking like thin clo

a

d with bleeding st

en m

ht on vengeance,

a

Bartholomew! wa

m

entle Henry-"No

o

ery foreigner, but

o

such a knight, in f

lord, King Henr

va

I

t all the French

ce t

y banner God gav

igion have borne

d of Rosny hath

it

milian the cornet

ith crosses black,

rai

unfurl it wide-

y

bled the proud h

urch s

, while trumpets s

t of

eds, a foot-cloth

va

I

Vienna! ho! mat

rend your hair f

l re

for charity, thy

nks may sing a

men's

s of the league,

bri

St. Genevieve, k

nig

crushed the tyr

d the

unsel of the wise

br

holy name, for who

overeign lord, Kin

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d lonely

n high o'er v

t once I s

f golden

lake, benea

nd dancing i

I

as the star

le on the

h'd in neve

margin o

nd saw I a

heads in spr

I

side them da

sparkling wa

uld not b

a jocund

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he show to me

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hen on my

or in pe

upon that

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heart with p

with the

DSW

RFUL

every state people may be cheerful; the lambs skip, birds sing and fly joyously, puppies play, kittens are full of joy, the whole air is full

say, possesses the world, whereas the melanch

ome, brooding and thinking, or doing little, will bring gloom. The reaction of this feelin

member joy more readily than sorrow, and always l

nd bring to perfection, a thoroughly bad one; but we may be certain that to do so is a very grave error and s

, affliction; converts ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and re

more in the same time, -he will do it better,-he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fat

owers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous

bid man cries out that there is always enough wrong in the world to make a man miserable. Conceded

loud, not bating one jot of heart or hope if for a moment cast down: honoring his occupation, whatever it may be; renderi

FRIS

IN THE

world is wi

fields of

dancing e

is almo

builded high

eaven's li

leets seren

py clou

I

run, the bare

ollow rings

falls and das

rs burst

re full of l

he romping

uffles blue

nes roar o

I

go by, a n

meadows al

rk drops his

ihe leaf

runs, and no

dips with f

utes, the sp

allows flo

V

spirit's c

in enchan

e sun upo

rom care

rth bids me

brow and u

spirit in

the spri

tumult of

th the wak

bluebird i

with wind

er of imm

lorious worl

s and the wo

earth and

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