Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 страници |
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... side , we will suppose , fixed with due elegance against the luxurious crimson of the wall , would be a slab of black marble exhibiting in relief a white plaster - cast of the face of Shake- speare as modelled from the Stratford bust ...
... side , we will suppose , fixed with due elegance against the luxurious crimson of the wall , would be a slab of black marble exhibiting in relief a white plaster - cast of the face of Shake- speare as modelled from the Stratford bust ...
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... side idolatry , as much as any . He was , indeed , honest , and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy , brave notions , and gentle expressions , wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he ...
... side idolatry , as much as any . He was , indeed , honest , and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy , brave notions , and gentle expressions , wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he ...
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... sides by nature , society , and the unseen , that Literature , out of the actual moments in which he was engaged in it , must have seemed to him a mere bagatelle , a mere fantastic echo of not a tithe of life . In his home in London ...
... sides by nature , society , and the unseen , that Literature , out of the actual moments in which he was engaged in it , must have seemed to him a mere bagatelle , a mere fantastic echo of not a tithe of life . In his home in London ...
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... side , against Malvolio the Puritan on the other . That the defence of the festive in this passage is not borne by more respectable personages than the two who speak , is indeed a kind of indication that Shakespeare's per- sonal ...
... side , against Malvolio the Puritan on the other . That the defence of the festive in this passage is not borne by more respectable personages than the two who speak , is indeed a kind of indication that Shakespeare's per- sonal ...
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... side of their cha- racter to the scenes and incidents that there present themselves , simply saying of each , " That is right and worthy , " or , " That is wrong and unworthy , " and treating it accordingly . But they break down in the ...
... side of their cha- racter to the scenes and incidents that there present themselves , simply saying of each , " That is right and worthy , " or , " That is wrong and unworthy , " and treating it accordingly . But they break down in the ...
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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...