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... writing his Paradise Lost were immense . The gist of those difficulties may be defined as consisting in this , that the poet had at once to represent a supernatural condition of being and to construct a story . He had to describe the ...
... writing his Paradise Lost were immense . The gist of those difficulties may be defined as consisting in this , that the poet had at once to represent a supernatural condition of being and to construct a story . He had to describe the ...
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... written . Suppose the fallen Angels to have had a working notion of the Deity as superhuman as their reputed appearance and physical greatness : then the events of the Paradise Lost might have happened nevertheless , but the chain of ...
... written . Suppose the fallen Angels to have had a working notion of the Deity as superhuman as their reputed appearance and physical greatness : then the events of the Paradise Lost might have happened nevertheless , but the chain of ...
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... that the latter may be discursive and reflec- tive while the former cannot . We can conceive an epic written after the Shakespearian method ; that is , one which , while strictly sustaining a narrative , should 16 THE THREE DEVILS :
... that the latter may be discursive and reflec- tive while the former cannot . We can conceive an epic written after the Shakespearian method ; that is , one which , while strictly sustaining a narrative , should 16 THE THREE DEVILS :
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... written , we are to suppose ex- aggeration for the worse . In short , the face of Shake- speare , so far as we can infer what it was from the homely Stratford bust , was a genuine and even comely , but still unusual , English face ...
... written , we are to suppose ex- aggeration for the worse . In short , the face of Shake- speare , so far as we can infer what it was from the homely Stratford bust , was a genuine and even comely , but still unusual , English face ...
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... a dramatist . Having , during some five - and - twenty years of a life not very long , written about forty dramatic pieces , which , after being acted in several London theatres , were printed either by him- F 2 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 67.
... a dramatist . Having , during some five - and - twenty years of a life not very long , written about forty dramatic pieces , which , after being acted in several London theatres , were printed either by him- F 2 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 67.
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Página 84 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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Página 212 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 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...
Página 11 - 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...
Página 25 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our...
Página 111 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
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Página 89 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Página 88 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 86 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.