Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in order , sad OLD AGE we found , His beard all hoar , his eyes hollow and blind ...
... manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in order , sad OLD AGE we found , His beard all hoar , his eyes hollow and blind ...
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... manner , like what we find in the works of the earliest school of the Italian painters , before Raphael and Michael Angelo arose to convert the art from a painful repetition or mimicry of reality into a process of creation - from the ...
... manner , like what we find in the works of the earliest school of the Italian painters , before Raphael and Michael Angelo arose to convert the art from a painful repetition or mimicry of reality into a process of creation - from the ...
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... manner ; and some of the situations , though the humour is rather farcical than comic , are very cleverly conceived and managed . The language also may be said to be , on the whole , racy and characteristic , if not very polished . A ...
... manner ; and some of the situations , though the humour is rather farcical than comic , are very cleverly conceived and managed . The language also may be said to be , on the whole , racy and characteristic , if not very polished . A ...
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... manners of the time . One of the dramatis personæ , in particular , who is seldom absent from the stage , Cacurgus , the buffoon or fool kept by the family whose fortunes form the subject of the piece , must , as Mr. Collier remarks ...
... manners of the time . One of the dramatis personæ , in particular , who is seldom absent from the stage , Cacurgus , the buffoon or fool kept by the family whose fortunes form the subject of the piece , must , as Mr. Collier remarks ...
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... manner it is wholly undramatic . The story has no dramatic capabilities , no evolution either of action or of character , although it affords some opportunities for description and eloquent declamation ; and neither was there aught of ...
... manner it is wholly undramatic . The story has no dramatic capabilities , no evolution either of action or of character , although it affords some opportunities for description and eloquent declamation ; and neither was there aught of ...
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Страница 118 - Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Страница 28 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Страница 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Страница 105 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Страница 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Страница 56 - With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Страница 114 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Страница 77 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Страница 49 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Страница 120 - Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.