Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... young man could hope to produce something as good or better , the way was certainly open to him to the attainment , in his own nation , of a position analog- ous to that which Shakespeare had occupied in his . Goethe might , if he had ...
... young man could hope to produce something as good or better , the way was certainly open to him to the attainment , in his own nation , of a position analog- ous to that which Shakespeare had occupied in his . Goethe might , if he had ...
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... young , beautiful and innocent girl , from the conviction that it was better to do so . Shakespeare at thirty - five was the abject slave of a dark - complexioned woman , who was faithless to him , and whom he cursed in his heart . The ...
... young , beautiful and innocent girl , from the conviction that it was better to do so . Shakespeare at thirty - five was the abject slave of a dark - complexioned woman , who was faithless to him , and whom he cursed in his heart . The ...
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... young talent or other — never was such a mind consecrated so perseveringly and exclusively to the service of Kunst and Literatur . One almost begins to wonder if it was altogether right that an old man should go on , morning after ...
... young talent or other — never was such a mind consecrated so perseveringly and exclusively to the service of Kunst and Literatur . One almost begins to wonder if it was altogether right that an old man should go on , morning after ...
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... Young , a Puritan of Essex who cut his hair short , " there is enough to prove that the formation of his character in youth was aided expressly and purposely by Puritanical influences . But Milton , if ever , in a denomina- tional sense ...
... Young , a Puritan of Essex who cut his hair short , " there is enough to prove that the formation of his character in youth was aided expressly and purposely by Puritanical influences . But Milton , if ever , in a denomina- tional sense ...
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... young man , without exhibiting to them at the same time the actual and early proofs of his poetical genius , their conclusion , were they true to their theory , would necessarily be , that the basis of his nature was too solid and ...
... young man , without exhibiting to them at the same time the actual and early proofs of his poetical genius , their conclusion , were they true to their theory , would necessarily be , that the basis of his nature was too solid and ...
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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...