Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 страници |
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... feelings in song , often alluding to himself , and generally under personal agitation when he writes . Shake- speare , on the other hand , is a dramatist , whose function it was not to communicate , but to create . Had he been a drama ...
... feelings in song , often alluding to himself , and generally under personal agitation when he writes . Shake- speare , on the other hand , is a dramatist , whose function it was not to communicate , but to create . Had he been a drama ...
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... feelings and experience a eon- nected series of entries , as it were , in his own diary - during a certain period of his London life . This , we say , is con- clusively determined and agreed upon ; and whoever does not , to some extent ...
... feelings and experience a eon- nected series of entries , as it were , in his own diary - during a certain period of his London life . This , we say , is con- clusively determined and agreed upon ; and whoever does not , to some extent ...
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... feelings of our common nature on which religion and all solemn activity have founded and maintained themselves . Space and Time are the largest and the outermost of all human conceptions ; to stand , therefore , incessantly upon these ...
... feelings of our common nature on which religion and all solemn activity have founded and maintained themselves . Space and Time are the largest and the outermost of all human conceptions ; to stand , therefore , incessantly upon these ...
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... feelings of Homer and Sophocles , Dante and Milton . What we will say , then , and what we will challenge the world to gainsay , is , that he was the greatest expresser that ever lived . This is glory enough , and it leaves the other ...
... feelings of Homer and Sophocles , Dante and Milton . What we will say , then , and what we will challenge the world to gainsay , is , that he was the greatest expresser that ever lived . This is glory enough , and it leaves the other ...
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... feeling , or situation , really common and generic to human life , on which he has not exercised his pre- rogative ; and , wherever he has once been , woe to the man that comes after him ! He has overgrown the whole system . and face of ...
... feeling , or situation , really common and generic to human life , on which he has not exercised his pre- rogative ; and , wherever he has once been , woe to the man that comes after him ! He has overgrown the whole system . and face of ...
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Страница 11 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Страница 3 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Страница 54 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Страница 433 - Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...
Страница 452 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Страница 47 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Страница 370 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Страница 453 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Страница 453 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Страница 27 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...