Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... natural parts beyond all other dramatical writers . He was wont to say that he never blotted out a line in his life ... nature ; had an excellent phantasy , brave notions , and gentle expressions , wherein he flowed with that facility ...
... natural parts beyond all other dramatical writers . He was wont to say that he never blotted out a line in his life ... nature ; had an excellent phantasy , brave notions , and gentle expressions , wherein he flowed with that facility ...
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... nature ; but from opinion , doctrine , controversy , theory , he holds instinctively aloof . In each of his plays there is a " central idea , " to use the favourite term of the German critics - that is , a single thought round which all ...
... nature ; but from opinion , doctrine , controversy , theory , he holds instinctively aloof . In each of his plays there is a " central idea , " to use the favourite term of the German critics - that is , a single thought round which all ...
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... nature , Shakespeare was compelled in a certain earnest direction in all that he did ; and it is our part to search through the thickets of imagery and gratuitous fiction amid which he spent his life , that this path may be discovered ...
... nature , Shakespeare was compelled in a certain earnest direction in all that he did ; and it is our part to search through the thickets of imagery and gratuitous fiction amid which he spent his life , that this path may be discovered ...
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... nature , we should rather say , William the Meditative , William the Metaphysical , or William the Melan- choly ... natural and con- genial mood into which they fall when they are left to talk with themselves . One man recounts the ...
... nature , we should rather say , William the Meditative , William the Metaphysical , or William the Melan- choly ... natural and con- genial mood into which they fall when they are left to talk with themselves . One man recounts the ...
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... nature . It was Shakespeare's use , as it seems to us , to revert often , when alone , to that ultimate mood of the soul , in which one hovers wistfully on the borders of the finite , vainly pressing against the barriers that separate ...
... nature . It was Shakespeare's use , as it seems to us , to revert often , when alone , to that ultimate mood of the soul , in which one hovers wistfully on the borders of the finite , vainly pressing against the barriers that separate ...
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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...