Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations . By Frenchmen , Shake- speare is accepted as at least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans ...
... England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations . By Frenchmen , Shake- speare is accepted as at least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans ...
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... England ; and necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper . Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who knew him best convey the idea of a character notably different from ...
... England ; and necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper . Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who knew him best convey the idea of a character notably different from ...
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... England more full of fair promise than Milton , when , at the age of twenty - three , he quitted Cambridge to reside at his father's house , amid the quiet beauties of a rural neighbour- hood some twenty miles distant from London . Fair ...
... England more full of fair promise than Milton , when , at the age of twenty - three , he quitted Cambridge to reside at his father's house , amid the quiet beauties of a rural neighbour- hood some twenty miles distant from London . Fair ...
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... England , at least the greatest writer , and one whose egomet dixi was entitled to as much force in the intel- lectual Commonwealth as the decree of a civil magistrate is invested with in the order of civil life . All that he said or ...
... England , at least the greatest writer , and one whose egomet dixi was entitled to as much force in the intel- lectual Commonwealth as the decree of a civil magistrate is invested with in the order of civil life . All that he said or ...
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... England , at the time when he formed that resolution , was a place where he could hope to keep it . For a man so situated , the alternative , then as now , was the practice or pro- fession of literature . To this , therefore , as soon ...
... England , at the time when he formed that resolution , was a place where he could hope to keep it . For a man so situated , the alternative , then as now , was the practice or pro- fession of literature . To this , therefore , as soon ...
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acquaintance angels antique appearance Barrett Beckford Ben Jonson Bristol Brooke Street Burgum burletta called Catcott character Chatterton circumstance Clayfield Colston's school concrete connexion critics death Devil drama Dryden England English expression fact faculty fancy feeling genius Goethe Goethe's habit hand honour human imagination imitation intellectual kind language letter literary literature lived London Lord Luther Magazine matter means melancholy Mephistopheles metre Milton mind nation nature never night North Briton Paradise Lost passage passion peculiar piece poems poet poetical poetry political poor prose published regard respect rhyme Rowley Satan satire Scotchmen Scottish seems Shakespeare Shoreditch Sir Herbert Croft sister song soul spirit Stella style Swift terton things THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought tion town tragedy verse walk Walpole Whig Whiggism whole Wilkes words Wordsworth write written young
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...