Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 էջ |
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... England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations . By Frenchmen , Shake- speare is accepted as at least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans ...
... England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations . By Frenchmen , Shake- speare is accepted as at least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans ...
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... England ; and necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper .. Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who knew him best convey the idea of a character notably different from ...
... England ; and necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper .. Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who knew him best convey the idea of a character notably different from ...
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... England more full of fair promise than Milton , when , at the age of twenty - three , he quitted Cambridge to reside at his father's house , amid the quiet beauties of a rural neighbour- hood some twenty miles distant from London . Fair ...
... England more full of fair promise than Milton , when , at the age of twenty - three , he quitted Cambridge to reside at his father's house , amid the quiet beauties of a rural neighbour- hood some twenty miles distant from London . Fair ...
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... England , at least the greatest writer , and one whose egomet dixi was entitled to as much force in the intel- lectual Commonwealth as the decree of a civil magistrate is invested with in the order of civil life . All that he said or ...
... England , at least the greatest writer , and one whose egomet dixi was entitled to as much force in the intel- lectual Commonwealth as the decree of a civil magistrate is invested with in the order of civil life . All that he said or ...
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... England , at the time when he formed that resolution , was a place where he could hope to keep it . For a man so situated , the alternative , then as now , was the practice or pro- fession of literature . To this , therefore , as soon ...
... England , at the time when he formed that resolution , was a place where he could hope to keep it . For a man so situated , the alternative , then as now , was the practice or pro- fession of literature . To this , therefore , as soon ...
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Էջ 451 - hardly paralleled in the rest of literature. Thus, ad aperturam,— " Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such duleet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Էջ 423 - near her highest noon, Like one that hath been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar.
Էջ 1 - takes exactly the same form of self-dissatisfaction. "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that
Էջ 3 - or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and uncertain thoughts Imagine howling ! 'Tis too horrible. The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment, To what we fear of Death." Can lay on nature, is a paradise
Էջ 423 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,' Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! and thou all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world.
Էջ 339 - slow, Shall spring to seize thee, like an ambush'd foe.' From this hubbub of words pass to the original. ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise : which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and
Էջ 54 - may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in heaven that He ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom His choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption.
Էջ 406 - the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." Or we may vary the phrase, and, with Coleridge, call it, " the vision and faculty divine;" or, with Leigh Hunt, " imaginative passion,
Էջ 436 - 0, first-created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Էջ 4 - (Throws down the skull.) Horatio. E'en so, my lord ! Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole ? Horatio. 'Twere to reason too curiously to consider so. Hamlet. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it.