Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 страници |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 88.
Страница
... respects , this portion of the Volume departs from the typical character of the Essay , and approaches that of a miniature Biography . UNIVERSITY COLLEGE , LONDON , April , 1856 . CONTENTS . SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE MILTON'S YOUTH I. PAGE ...
... respects , this portion of the Volume departs from the typical character of the Essay , and approaches that of a miniature Biography . UNIVERSITY COLLEGE , LONDON , April , 1856 . CONTENTS . SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE MILTON'S YOUTH I. PAGE ...
Страница 5
... respecting these two men whose masks , the preserved simili- tudes of the living features with which they once fronted the world , are now before us ? Let us turn first to the one and then to the other , till , as we gaze at these poor ...
... respecting these two men whose masks , the preserved simili- tudes of the living features with which they once fronted the world , are now before us ? Let us turn first to the one and then to the other , till , as we gaze at these poor ...
Страница 8
... respecting Shakespeare in that single trait , has no eye for seeing anything . Let no one ever lose sight of that phrase in trying to imagine Shakespeare . Still , after all , we cannot be content thus . With regard to such a man we ...
... respecting Shakespeare in that single trait , has no eye for seeing anything . Let no one ever lose sight of that phrase in trying to imagine Shakespeare . Still , after all , we cannot be content thus . With regard to such a man we ...
Страница 12
... respecting him to which it opens the way , that operates against it . Where we have so eager a desire to know , there we fear to believe , lest what we have once cherished on so great a subject we should be obliged again to give up ; or ...
... respecting him to which it opens the way , that operates against it . Where we have so eager a desire to know , there we fear to believe , lest what we have once cherished on so great a subject we should be obliged again to give up ; or ...
Страница 15
... respecting Shakespeare in that single trait , has no eye for seeing anything . Let no one ever lose sight of that phrase in trying to imagine Shakespeare . Still , after all , we cannot be content thus . With regard to such a man we ...
... respecting Shakespeare in that single trait , has no eye for seeing anything . Let no one ever lose sight of that phrase in trying to imagine Shakespeare . Still , after all , we cannot be content thus . With regard to such a man we ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
acquaintance angels antique appearance Barrett Beckford Ben Jonson Bristol Brooke Street Burgum burletta called Catcott character Chatterton circumstance Clayfield Colston's school concrete connexion critics death Devil drama Dryden England English expression fact faculty fancy feeling genius Goethe Goethe's habit hand honour human imagination imitation intellectual kind language letter literary literature lived London Lord Luther Magazine matter means melancholy Mephistopheles metre Milton mind nation nature never night North Briton Paradise Lost passage passion peculiar piece poems poet poetical poetry political poor prose published regard respect rhyme Rowley Satan satire Scotchmen Scottish seems Shakespeare Shoreditch Sir Herbert Croft sister song soul spirit Stella style Swift terton things THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought tion town tragedy verse walk Walpole Whig Whiggism whole Wilkes words Wordsworth write written young
Популярни откъси
Страница 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Страница 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Страница 44 - 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 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Страница 440 - 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...
Страница 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Страница 441 - ... 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 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...