Essays and Tales in Prose, Հատոր 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... eye and a bashful spirit . I was stored with tales and fictions , with the marvels of travel , many of them derived from an old relation , a sort of great uncle , who had always treated me with kindness . He used to place me upon his ...
... eye and a bashful spirit . I was stored with tales and fictions , with the marvels of travel , many of them derived from an old relation , a sort of great uncle , who had always treated me with kindness . He used to place me upon his ...
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... eyes to its moaning mother , and sighed out my few words of comfort . But I am a beggar in grief . I can feel , and sigh , and look kindly , I think ; but I have nothing to give . My tongue deserts me . I know the inutility of too soon ...
... eyes to its moaning mother , and sighed out my few words of comfort . But I am a beggar in grief . I can feel , and sigh , and look kindly , I think ; but I have nothing to give . My tongue deserts me . I know the inutility of too soon ...
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... eye glared , and he swore perpetually , and said that Satan was in wait for him , and pointed towards a corner of the chamber . When he made an effort , it was like the struggle of the tiger . And then he would listen , and cry that he ...
... eye glared , and he swore perpetually , and said that Satan was in wait for him , and pointed towards a corner of the chamber . When he made an effort , it was like the struggle of the tiger . And then he would listen , and cry that he ...
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... eye that wanted noth- ing but the illumination of love to make it altogether irresistible . His name was Rodrigo Gomez ; and , on the afternoon of which we have spoken , had any lady seen him treading firmly and lightly along ( as ...
... eye that wanted noth- ing but the illumination of love to make it altogether irresistible . His name was Rodrigo Gomez ; and , on the afternoon of which we have spoken , had any lady seen him treading firmly and lightly along ( as ...
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... eyes , and her voice sweeter than music , which none had been ever known to resist . It spoke of her as a Calypso a Circea creature who outwent all sculpture , and painting , the flights of passion , and the dreams of poets ; and then ...
... eyes , and her voice sweeter than music , which none had been ever known to resist . It spoke of her as a Calypso a Circea creature who outwent all sculpture , and painting , the flights of passion , and the dreams of poets ; and then ...
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Էջ 23 - and, when I have required Some heavenly music (which even now I do), To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I '11 break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I '11 drown my book.
Էջ 16 - honor his memory, on this side of idolatry, as much as any : he was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ;' and the editors of the folio edition of the plays, say that they have collected them ' to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakspere.
Էջ 15 - Englishman of war, lesser in bulk but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of
Էջ 15 - galleon and an English man of war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, like an
Էջ 16 - retired to his native town of Stratford. He had previously purchased one of the best houses there, called ' New Place,' and in this house he lived and died. He was buried on the 25th of April, 1616, on the north side of the chancel of the great church of Stratford. A monument was shortly
Էջ 14 - The following is Fuller's account of Shakspere, in his ' WORTHIES OF ENGLAND :' 'He was an eminent instance of the truth of that rule, ' poeta non fit, sed nasdtur: one is not made but born a poet.
Էջ 17 - to his memory. The artist has represented him in a sitting posture, with a pen in his right hand, and his left resting on a scroll of paper; and on the cushion which appears spread out before him, are engraved the following lines
Էջ 53 - and are involved (parenthetically) in the dialogue, without impeding it; such as, in ' ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA,' where Antony speaks of ' Our slippery people ( Whose love is never linked to the deserver, Till his deserts
Էջ 56 - or infirmity peculiar to himself. But I should do neither. For his great merit, as it appears to me, is, that he had no peculiar or prominent merit. His mind was so well constituted, so justly and admirably balanced, that it had nothing in excess. It was the harmonious combination, the