The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... rhyme sake translated , And into pity turn'd my rage . ' By this means the soft notes that were adapted to pity in the Italian , fell upon the word rage in the English ; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original ...
... rhyme sake translated , And into pity turn'd my rage . ' By this means the soft notes that were adapted to pity in the Italian , fell upon the word rage in the English ; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original ...
Էջ 109
... rhyming race . POPE . As a perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with ...
... rhyming race . POPE . As a perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with ...
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... rhyme and prose , that it seems wonderfully adapted to tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexam- eters would have been in Greek or Latin . The ...
... rhyme and prose , that it seems wonderfully adapted to tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexam- eters would have been in Greek or Latin . The ...
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... rhymes . " Tis he who gives my breast a thousand pains , Can make me feel each passion that he feigns ; Enrage , compose , with more than magic art , With pity , and with terror , tear my heart ; And snatch me o'er the earth , or ...
... rhymes . " Tis he who gives my breast a thousand pains , Can make me feel each passion that he feigns ; Enrage , compose , with more than magic art , With pity , and with terror , tear my heart ; And snatch me o'er the earth , or ...
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... rhymes . He raged , and kept as heavy a coil as Stout Hercules for loss of Hylas ; Forcing the vallies to repeat The accents of his sad regret ; He beat his breast , and tore his hair , For loss of his dear crony Bear , That Echo from ...
... rhymes . He raged , and kept as heavy a coil as Stout Hercules for loss of Hylas ; Forcing the vallies to repeat The accents of his sad regret ; He beat his breast , and tore his hair , For loss of his dear crony Bear , That Echo from ...
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Էջ 82 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Էջ 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Էջ 222 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Էջ 290 - I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Էջ 289 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Էջ 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Էջ 435 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him...
Էջ 291 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Էջ 288 - You see the goodness of the master even in the old house-dog, and in a gray pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services, though he has been useless for several years.
Էջ 7 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...