The Literature of the Age of ElizabethHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 364 страници |
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... living ideas and organizes living works , their dramas evince no coherence , no subordina- tion of parts , no grasp of the subject as a whole . There is a German play in which Adam is represented as pass- ing across the stage , " going ...
... living ideas and organizes living works , their dramas evince no coherence , no subordina- tion of parts , no grasp of the subject as a whole . There is a German play in which Adam is represented as pass- ing across the stage , " going ...
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... living for the time the person he conceives . What Macaulay says of Bacon is more applicable to Shakespeare , namely , that his mind resembles the tent which the fairy gave to Prince Ahmed . " Fold it , and it seemed a toy for the hand ...
... living for the time the person he conceives . What Macaulay says of Bacon is more applicable to Shakespeare , namely , that his mind resembles the tent which the fairy gave to Prince Ahmed . " Fold it , and it seemed a toy for the hand ...
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... living organism which results from the combination . It is for this reason that we pay little heed to improbable incidents in the story , provided the incidents serve to bring out the persons . It is very improbable that a bond should ...
... living organism which results from the combination . It is for this reason that we pay little heed to improbable incidents in the story , provided the incidents serve to bring out the persons . It is very improbable that a bond should ...
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... living representatives of the sex . Literature . boasts many eminent female poets and novelists ; but not one has ever approached Shakespeare in the purity , the sweetness , the refinement , the elevation , of his per- ceptions of ...
... living representatives of the sex . Literature . boasts many eminent female poets and novelists ; but not one has ever approached Shakespeare in the purity , the sweetness , the refinement , the elevation , of his per- ceptions of ...
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... living animal becomes a dangerous subject , his countenance flames , his great hands double up , his thick lips begin to twitch with im- pending invective , and , while the critic's impression of him is thus all the more vivid , he is ...
... living animal becomes a dangerous subject , his countenance flames , his great hands double up , his thick lips begin to twitch with im- pending invective , and , while the critic's impression of him is thus all the more vivid , he is ...
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Страница 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Страница 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Страница 361 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Страница 361 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Страница 58 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Страница 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Страница 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
Страница 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Страница 202 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Страница 355 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.