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Here goes it, up seyes to Varney and Leicester two more noble mounting spirits and more dark-seeking, deep-diving, high-flying, malicious, ambitious miscreants well, I say no more, but I will whet my dagger on his heart-spone that refuses to pledge me! And so, my masters "
In him was eminently illustrated the characteristic strength and weakness of English religion, which naturally comes out in that form of it which is called Anglicanism; that poor Anglicanism, the butt and laughing-stock of all the clever and high-flying converts to Rome, of all the clever and high-flying Liberals, and of all those poor copyists of the first, far from clever, though very high-flying, who now give themselves out as exclusive heirs of the great name of Catholic; sneered at on all sides as narrow, meagre, shattered, barren; which certainly does not always go to the bottom of questions, and is too much given to "hunting-up" passages for catenas of precedents and authorities; but which yet has a strange, obstinate, tenacious moral force in it; which, without being successful in formulating theories or in solving fallacies, can pierce through pretences and shams; and which in England seems the only shape in which intense religious faith can unfold itself and connect itself with morality and duty, without seeming to wear a peculiar dress of its own, and putting a barrier of self-chosen watchwords and singularities between itself and the rest of the nation.
Bit by bit, he pieced together broken notions of the world below: of the river, ever moving and growing until it sailed forth into the majestic ocean; of the cities, full of brisk and beautiful people, playing fountains, bands of music and marble palaces, and lighted up at night from end to end with artificial stars of gold; of the great churches, wise universities, brave armies, and untold money lying stored in vaults; of the high-flying vice that moved in the sunshine, and the stealth and swiftness of midnight murder.
Winged slippers, and all such high-flying contrivances, are seldom quite easy to manage, until one grows a little accustomed to them. Quicksilver laughed at his companion's involuntary activity, and told him that he must not be in so desperate a hurry, but must wait for the invisible helmet.
Chikno, bursting into tears; "if I have no children, sister, it is no fault of mine, it is but why do I call you sister?" said she, angrily; "you are no sister of mine, you are a grasni, a regular mare a pretty sister, indeed, ashamed of your own language. I remember well that by your high-flying notions you drove your own mother " "We will drop it," said Mrs.
For a long time they hurtled through a huge blue loneliness, dark blue below, lighter blue above. Once they passed over a ship, a pencil dot trailing a pin-scratch of white. Another time they startled a high-flying albatross, which gave a frightened squawk and plunged down out of sight with folded wings. Aside from that, there was nothing to see until they reached the islands.
They do not even wish them to be Dissenters "the sweet dears shall enjoy the advantages of good society, of which their parents were debarred." So the girls are sent to tip-top boarding-schools, where amongst other trash they read Rokeby, and are taught to sing snatches from that high-flying ditty, the "Cavalier"
There, sit by the fire pull off your frock and stockings, and we will send for the others. Let me see you look comfortable there. Now tell me who threw cold water." "It was figurative cold water," said Ethel, smiling for a moment. "I was only silly enough to tell Richard my plan, and it's horrid to talk to a person who only thinks one high-flying and nonsensical and then came the dirt."
Powell, with the high-flying magnificence of a cavalier who knew he was ruined, had promised as his daughter's portion. Mr. Powell's death was followed in less than three months by that of John Milton, senior. Giles's, Cripplegate. A host of eminent men have traced the first impulse of their genius to their mother.
That creative energy with which he is endowed, 'the high-flying liberty of conceit proper to the poet, will not fail to manifest itself in this region as in others. Extending the domain of thought and feeling, he will scarcely fail to extend that also of language, which does not willingly lag behind. And the loftier his moods, the more of this maker he will be.
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