Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... respect Shakespeare exceeds them all ; and in this respect , therefore , no poet is more religious , more spiritual , more pro- foundly metaphysical than he . Into an inordinate amount of that outward pressure of the soul against the ...
... respect Shakespeare exceeds them all ; and in this respect , therefore , no poet is more religious , more spiritual , more pro- foundly metaphysical than he . Into an inordinate amount of that outward pressure of the soul against the ...
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... respect to Metaphysics.- " Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe , but to find out where the problem begins , and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible . " - Ibid . vol . i . p . 272 . Goethe's ...
... respect to Metaphysics.- " Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe , but to find out where the problem begins , and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible . " - Ibid . vol . i . p . 272 . Goethe's ...
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... respect , otherwise than Shakespeare had done before him , did he fulfil this literary function in reference to the world he lived in and enjoyed ? In the first place , as all know , he differed from Shakespeare in this , that he did ...
... respect , otherwise than Shakespeare had done before him , did he fulfil this literary function in reference to the world he lived in and enjoyed ? In the first place , as all know , he differed from Shakespeare in this , that he did ...
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... respect for intellect , its accomplishments , and its rights . If any quality in the actions or writings of other men could have won Milton's favourable regards , even where his moral sense condemned , that quality , we believe , was ...
... respect for intellect , its accomplishments , and its rights . If any quality in the actions or writings of other men could have won Milton's favourable regards , even where his moral sense condemned , that quality , we believe , was ...
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... respect for talent would have led him , in other instances than that of the College theatricals , to see and hear much that his heart derided , to study and know what he would not strictly have wished to imitate . Ovid and Tibullus ...
... respect for talent would have led him , in other instances than that of the College theatricals , to see and hear much that his heart derided , to study and know what he would not strictly have wished to imitate . Ovid and Tibullus ...
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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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