Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... sense of contrast between the genial mildness of the two Teutonic faces , and the severe and scornful melancholy of the poet of the Inferno . The face of the Italian poet , as being so different in kind , must either be reluctantly ...
... sense of contrast between the genial mildness of the two Teutonic faces , and the severe and scornful melancholy of the poet of the Inferno . The face of the Italian poet , as being so different in kind , must either be reluctantly ...
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... sense ; but if we were to select that designation which would , as we think , express Shakespeare in his most intimate and private rela- tions to man and nature , we should rather say , William the Meditative , William the Metaphysical ...
... sense ; but if we were to select that designation which would , as we think , express Shakespeare in his most intimate and private rela- tions to man and nature , we should rather say , William the Meditative , William the Metaphysical ...
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... , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own " outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around It is sheer nonsense , with these and other such SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 15.
... , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own " outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around It is sheer nonsense , with these and other such SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 15.
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... , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around 66 him , into a kind of abject dissatisfaction with himself SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 15.
... , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around 66 him , into a kind of abject dissatisfaction with himself SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 15.
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... sense of his vast superiority ; and Goethe , if he had been an Englishman , would have partaken of the same feeling , and would have been obliged , as he says , to look about for some path in which competition with such a predecessor ...
... sense of his vast superiority ; and Goethe , if he had been an Englishman , would have partaken of the same feeling , and would have been obliged , as he says , to look about for some path in which competition with such a predecessor ...
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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...