Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 страници |
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... things could not escape laughter ; as when he said , in the person of Cæsar , one speaking to him , ' Cæsar , thou dost me wrong , ' he replied , ' Cæsar did never wrong but with just cause , ' and such like ; which were ridiculous ...
... things could not escape laughter ; as when he said , in the person of Cæsar , one speaking to him , ' Cæsar , thou dost me wrong , ' he replied , ' Cæsar did never wrong but with just cause , ' and such like ; which were ridiculous ...
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... things and going through his morning and evening hours , as any of ourselves . " Man is only many - sided , " says Goethe , " when he strives after the highest because he must , and descends to the lesser because he will ; " that is ...
... things and going through his morning and evening hours , as any of ourselves . " Man is only many - sided , " says Goethe , " when he strives after the highest because he must , and descends to the lesser because he will ; " that is ...
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... thing about the sonnets , and the very thing not to be explained away ; namely , the depth and strangeness of their pervading sentiment , and the curious hyperbolism of their style . In truth , it is the very closeness of the contact ...
... thing about the sonnets , and the very thing not to be explained away ; namely , the depth and strangeness of their pervading sentiment , and the curious hyperbolism of their style . In truth , it is the very closeness of the contact ...
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... things and going through his morning and evening hours , as any of ourselves . " Man is only many - sided , " says Goethe , " when he strives after the highest because he must , and descends to the lesser because he A will ; " that is ...
... things and going through his morning and evening hours , as any of ourselves . " Man is only many - sided , " says Goethe , " when he strives after the highest because he must , and descends to the lesser because he A will ; " that is ...
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... things , infuse the peculiar moral germ of Christianity , and you have the religion of Shakespeare . Thus : - " And our little life Is rounded with a sleep . " - Tempest . Here the poetic imagination sweeps boldly round the universe ...
... things , infuse the peculiar moral germ of Christianity , and you have the religion of Shakespeare . Thus : - " And our little life Is rounded with a sleep . " - Tempest . Here the poetic imagination sweeps boldly round the universe ...
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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...
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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.
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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...