Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... connexion , to what we have to say of Goethe . For , if , with the foregoing impressions on our mind respecting the character and the function of the great English poet , we turn to the mask of his German successor and admirer , which ...
... connexion , to what we have to say of Goethe . For , if , with the foregoing impressions on our mind respecting the character and the function of the great English poet , we turn to the mask of his German successor and admirer , which ...
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... connexion , will see that they reveal a mode of thought somewhat resembling that which we have attributed to Shakespeare , and yet essentially different from it . Both poets are distinguished by this , that they abstained systematically ...
... connexion , will see that they reveal a mode of thought somewhat resembling that which we have attributed to Shakespeare , and yet essentially different from it . Both poets are distinguished by this , that they abstained systematically ...
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... connexion , into an account of himself , his education , his designs , and his relations to the matter in question ; and this sometimes so elaborately and at such length , that the impres- sion is as if he said to his readers ...
... connexion , into an account of himself , his education , his designs , and his relations to the matter in question ; and this sometimes so elaborately and at such length , that the impres- sion is as if he said to his readers ...
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... connexion with the politics of the Protectorate had not been such as to make his immediate and cordial attachment to the cause of restored royalty either very strange or very unhandsome . Not committed either by strong personal ...
... connexion with the politics of the Protectorate had not been such as to make his immediate and cordial attachment to the cause of restored royalty either very strange or very unhandsome . Not committed either by strong personal ...
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... connexion between them , by Dryden's marriage with Sir Robert's sister , Lady Elizabeth Howard . The marriage , the result , it would seem , of a visit of the poet , in the company of Sir Robert , to the Earl of Berkshire's seat in ...
... connexion between them , by Dryden's marriage with Sir Robert's sister , Lady Elizabeth Howard . The marriage , the result , it would seem , of a visit of the poet , in the company of Sir Robert , to the Earl of Berkshire's seat in ...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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