Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 էջ |
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... young man could hope to produce something as good or better , the way was certainly open to him to the attainment , in his own nation , of a position analog- ous to that which Shakespeare had occupied in his . Goethe might , if he had ...
... young man could hope to produce something as good or better , the way was certainly open to him to the attainment , in his own nation , of a position analog- ous to that which Shakespeare had occupied in his . Goethe might , if he had ...
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... young , beautiful and innocent girl , from the conviction that it was better to do so . Shakespeare at thirty - five was the abject slave of a dark - complexioned woman , who was faithless to him , and whom he cursed in his heart . The ...
... young , beautiful and innocent girl , from the conviction that it was better to do so . Shakespeare at thirty - five was the abject slave of a dark - complexioned woman , who was faithless to him , and whom he cursed in his heart . The ...
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... young talent or other - never was such a mind consecrated so perseveringly and exclusively to the service of Kunst and Literatur . One almost begins to wonder if it was altogether right that an old man should go on , morning after ...
... young talent or other - never was such a mind consecrated so perseveringly and exclusively to the service of Kunst and Literatur . One almost begins to wonder if it was altogether right that an old man should go on , morning after ...
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... Young , a Puritan of Essex who cut his hair short , " there is enough to prove that the formation of his character in youth was aided expressly and purposely by Puritanical influences . But Milton , if ever , in a denomina- tional sense ...
... Young , a Puritan of Essex who cut his hair short , " there is enough to prove that the formation of his character in youth was aided expressly and purposely by Puritanical influences . But Milton , if ever , in a denomina- tional sense ...
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... young man , without exhibiting to them at the same time the actual and early proofs of his poetical genius , their conclusion , were they true to their theory , would necessarily be , that the basis of his nature was too solid and ...
... young man , without exhibiting to them at the same time the actual and early proofs of his poetical genius , their conclusion , were they true to their theory , would necessarily be , that the basis of his nature was too solid and ...
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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.