Essays and Tales in Prose, Հատոր 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... leave to adopt silently those only which appear to me to approach nearest to the truth . It would be painful , indeed , if , from too fastidious a scepticism , we were to deprive ourselves or others of the pleasure of supposing that we ...
... leave to adopt silently those only which appear to me to approach nearest to the truth . It would be painful , indeed , if , from too fastidious a scepticism , we were to deprive ourselves or others of the pleasure of supposing that we ...
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... Leaving the question of our poet's education and learning to be canvassed by the more curious , I pro- ceed , and find that , towards the close of the year 1582 , being then about eighteen years and seven months old , he intermarried ...
... Leaving the question of our poet's education and learning to be canvassed by the more curious , I pro- ceed , and find that , towards the close of the year 1582 , being then about eighteen years and seven months old , he intermarried ...
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... leave him in a new shape - tended and decorated by a new artist , his characters drawn out by the pencil , and many ' of his delicate fancies ( as I think ) delicately handled , to take his chance with the English public . ― $ 2 . And ...
... leave him in a new shape - tended and decorated by a new artist , his characters drawn out by the pencil , and many ' of his delicate fancies ( as I think ) delicately handled , to take his chance with the English public . ― $ 2 . And ...
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... leaving the mature mind unaffected , that the supernatural becomes absurd . It is , in short , the quantity of intellect thrown into fictions of this order , which determines their general fitness to appear before the world . Taking ...
... leaving the mature mind unaffected , that the supernatural becomes absurd . It is , in short , the quantity of intellect thrown into fictions of this order , which determines their general fitness to appear before the world . Taking ...
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... leave the rest to future writers . $ 6 . - If the judgment and general intellect of Shakspere be great , so is his style worthy of the thoughts which it enshrines . It is , beyond comparison , the most dra- matic style extant . Some ...
... leave the rest to future writers . $ 6 . - If the judgment and general intellect of Shakspere be great , so is his style worthy of the thoughts which it enshrines . It is , beyond comparison , the most dra- matic style extant . Some ...
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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