Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 páginas |
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... living feet , the scenery , voices from human tongues varying with all the changes of emotion , impassioned gestures , and events no longer spoken of , but transacted in presence , before the eyes of the audience , are elements full of ...
... living feet , the scenery , voices from human tongues varying with all the changes of emotion , impassioned gestures , and events no longer spoken of , but transacted in presence , before the eyes of the audience , are elements full of ...
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... living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit , which was before stifled under a con- strained , melancholy way of breeding , began first to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gayety of ...
... living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit , which was before stifled under a con- strained , melancholy way of breeding , began first to display its force by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gayety of ...
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... living to be christened on the stage ! For humour farce , for love they rhyme dispense , That tolls the knell for their departed sense . Dullness , that in a playhouse meets disgrace , Might meet with reverence in its proper place . The ...
... living to be christened on the stage ! For humour farce , for love they rhyme dispense , That tolls the knell for their departed sense . Dullness , that in a playhouse meets disgrace , Might meet with reverence in its proper place . The ...
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... living blood that flows through the living heart - the affections , the passions , and the actions that mould man and his world — you find sporting and rejoicing in their own elastic vigour , their adroitness and buoyancy , and in their ...
... living blood that flows through the living heart - the affections , the passions , and the actions that mould man and his world — you find sporting and rejoicing in their own elastic vigour , their adroitness and buoyancy , and in their ...
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... living breeze of sympathy ? He more than all beings receives into his soul the souls of other men . So he thrives and grows ; and shall he not be a partaker in his age ? In an age thus to be described , that it refines instead of ...
... living breeze of sympathy ? He more than all beings receives into his soul the souls of other men . So he thrives and grows ; and shall he not be a partaker in his age ? In an age thus to be described , that it refines instead of ...
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admire Æneid ancient Arcite Asmoday beauty Ben Jonson blank verse cæsura Canterbury Tales character Chaucer Cibber comedy criticism death delight divine Dryden Dullness Dunces Dunciad Emelie English excellent eyes fame fancy Fletcher flowers genius goddess grace hand hath heart heaven heroic plays Homer honour Horne human Iliad imagination imitation John Dryden Jonson Joseph Warton judgment king knight Knight's Tale labour ladies language learning living Lucretius manner Milton mind modern moral Muse nature never numbers o'er original Ovid Palamon Paradise Lost passion persons Pindar poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader rhyme rules satire says scene sense Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's song soul speak Spenser spirit stage syllables Tale thee Theseus things thou thought tion tongue translation Troilus and Cressida true truth Tyrwhitt Virgil virtue Warton words writing
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Página 299 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 99 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Página 57 - You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 57 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Página 102 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Página 189 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Página 267 - So spake the Son : but Satan, with his Powers, Far was advanced on winged speed : an host Innumerable as the stars of night; Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Página 101 - Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Página 70 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 37 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.