Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 páginas |
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... tion and Return of his Sacred Majesty , " and " A Panegyric on his Coronation , " he had not only shown his measureless superiority to the Spratts and Wallers - poetasters of the same class after all , though Spratt was always but a ...
... tion and Return of his Sacred Majesty , " and " A Panegyric on his Coronation , " he had not only shown his measureless superiority to the Spratts and Wallers - poetasters of the same class after all , though Spratt was always but a ...
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... tion , was encouraged to engraft on it another drama called the " Indian Emperor ” - -a continuation of the tale , -which had the most ample success , and till a revolution in the public taste , retained possession of the stage . Soon ...
... tion , was encouraged to engraft on it another drama called the " Indian Emperor ” - -a continuation of the tale , -which had the most ample success , and till a revolution in the public taste , retained possession of the stage . Soon ...
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... tion of plays . " In great attempts ' tis glorious even to fail ; and assuredly had Dryden essayed all this , his failure would have been complete . " I would , " said he , with his usual igno- rance of his own and his age's worst sins ...
... tion of plays . " In great attempts ' tis glorious even to fail ; and assuredly had Dryden essayed all this , his failure would have been complete . " I would , " said he , with his usual igno- rance of his own and his age's worst sins ...
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... tion's , afforded him an opportunity , which is rarely allowed to sovereign princes - I mean of traveling , and being conver- sant in the most polished courts of Europe ; and , thereby , of cultivating a spirit which was formed by ...
... tion's , afforded him an opportunity , which is rarely allowed to sovereign princes - I mean of traveling , and being conver- sant in the most polished courts of Europe ; and , thereby , of cultivating a spirit which was formed by ...
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... tion . Spirit of glorious John ! forgive , we beseech thee , truth- telling Christopher - but angels and ministers of grace defend Us ! WHO ART THOU ? Shakspeare's ghost . PROLOGUE , SPOKEN BY MR . BETTERTON , REPRESENTING THE GHOST OF ...
... tion . Spirit of glorious John ! forgive , we beseech thee , truth- telling Christopher - but angels and ministers of grace defend Us ! WHO ART THOU ? Shakspeare's ghost . PROLOGUE , SPOKEN BY MR . BETTERTON , REPRESENTING THE GHOST 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.