Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... human affairs , as they now are , would be produced by the immediate withdrawal of all this intellectual capital , together with all the interest that has been accumulated on it - that is the SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 5.
... human affairs , as they now are , would be produced by the immediate withdrawal of all this intellectual capital , together with all the interest that has been accumulated on it - that is the SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 5.
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... interests in the world ; taking his guests into corners to have quiet discussions with them on these subjects ; and always finding something new and nice to be said about them . Possibly , indeed , this is the fault of those who have ...
... interests in the world ; taking his guests into corners to have quiet discussions with them on these subjects ; and always finding something new and nice to be said about them . Possibly , indeed , this is the fault of those who have ...
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... interest of life ; nor was he a man so far master of himself as ever to be able to behave as if it were so , and to accept , as Goethe did , all that occurred as so much culture . Yet Shakespeare would have understood Goethe ; and would ...
... interest of life ; nor was he a man so far master of himself as ever to be able to behave as if it were so , and to accept , as Goethe did , all that occurred as so much culture . Yet Shakespeare would have understood Goethe ; and would ...
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... interests had fitting preponderance , yet it may be affirmed that he who , tolerating or admiring these poets , does not relish also such poetry as that of Spenser , Keats , and Shakespeare in his minor pieces , but complains of it as ...
... interests had fitting preponderance , yet it may be affirmed that he who , tolerating or admiring these poets , does not relish also such poetry as that of Spenser , Keats , and Shakespeare in his minor pieces , but complains of it as ...
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... interest , a touch of that theory , while criticising his juvenile poems , and telling him how he might learn to write better , there would have descended on the lecturer , as sure as fate , a rebuke , though from young lips , that ...
... interest , a touch of that theory , while criticising his juvenile poems , and telling him how he might learn to write better , there would have descended on the lecturer , as sure as fate , a rebuke , though from young lips , that ...
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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...