Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... never a good actor , but an excellent instructor . ) He began early to make essays at dramatic poetry , which at that time was very low ; and his plays took well . He was a handsome , well - shaped man ; very good company , and of a ...
... never a good actor , but an excellent instructor . ) He began early to make essays at dramatic poetry , which at that time was very low ; and his plays took well . He was a handsome , well - shaped man ; very good company , and of a ...
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... never was a mind in the world from which , when it was pricked by any occasion whatever , there poured forth on the instant such a stream of precious substance intellectually related to it . By his powers of expression , in fact , Shake ...
... never was a mind in the world from which , when it was pricked by any occasion whatever , there poured forth on the instant such a stream of precious substance intellectually related to it . By his powers of expression , in fact , Shake ...
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... never so well a second time that which the world has already canonized a man for doing once , has little chance of being admitted to coequal honours . More especially , too , in the present case , would too close a resemblance to the ...
... never so well a second time that which the world has already canonized a man for doing once , has little chance of being admitted to coequal honours . More especially , too , in the present case , would too close a resemblance to the ...
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... incidents connected with Goethe's youth , both in Frankfort and in Weimar ; but to what extent these traditions are founded on fact is a matter which we have never yet seen any attempt to decide 28 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
... incidents connected with Goethe's youth , both in Frankfort and in Weimar ; but to what extent these traditions are founded on fact is a matter which we have never yet seen any attempt to decide 28 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
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Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. which we have never yet seen any attempt to decide upon evidence . More authentic for us , and equally significant , if we could be sure of our ability to appreciate them rightly , are the stories ...
Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. which we have never yet seen any attempt to decide upon evidence . More authentic for us , and equally significant , if we could be sure of our ability to appreciate them rightly , are the stories ...
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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 |
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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