He seemed therefore confident, that, instead of reason we were only possessed of some quality fitted to increase our natural vices; as the reflection from a troubled stream returns the image of an ill
shapen body, not only larger but more distorted."
He was a thin-faced, yellow-haired youth, rather above the middle size, comely and well
shapen, with straight, lithe figure and eager, boyish features.
The story of their coming to be
shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardor in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardor of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly.
Samuel Rutherford was right to complain."We have all
shapen Christ but too narrow and too short and formed conceptions of his love in our conceit very unworthy of it.
What would be a major concern now is how it would be used to
shapen the general election in a more positive way without causing unnecessary tension.
shapen, bluish-purple ones against a black background.
Other elements of Lear's speech evoke the architecture and location of Chaucer's House of Rumour, which is "
shapen lyk a cage" (3.1985)--more precisely, a bird cage.
And hende Nicholas and Alisoun Acorded been to this conclusioun, That Nicholas shal
shapen hym a wyle And this sely jalous housbounde to bigyle.
The 50kg roughly
shapen bar of pure silver has been brought ashore on the island of Madagascar.
Moreover, this was still too close to
shapen. Though the respect for dead grieving year was technically over nine months ago, there is still mourning for m,e.
In addition to writing plays and performing in them, he wrote for numerous publications, belonged to Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and wrote and delivered the class poem, which characterizes his alma mater as "a friend" and proclaims, somewhat awkwardly: "You take the crude stuff and you fashion it free, / Till
shapen and moulded you send forth your men" (58).
And there are some striking, moderately long pieces in which Brathwaite shows his ability to shape a wonderful image: "Slowly the white dream wrestles to life / hands
shapen the salt and the foreign cornfields / the cold flesh kneaded by fingers / is ready for the charcoal for the black wife // of heat the years of green sleeping in the volcano."