The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34 |
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... Fair Penitent with the Fatal Dowry of Massinger . 78. The same continued . 79. Conclusion of the review . 80. Remarks upon Congreve's comedy of the Double Dealer . 81. Observations on the various sorts of style . 82. Conversation in a ...
... Fair Penitent with the Fatal Dowry of Massinger . 78. The same continued . 79. Conclusion of the review . 80. Remarks upon Congreve's comedy of the Double Dealer . 81. Observations on the various sorts of style . 82. Conversation in a ...
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... fair district of their native isle A free inheritance , compact and clear . How sweet the vivyfying dawn to him , Who with a fond paternal eye can trace Beloved scenes , where rivers groves , and lawns Rise at the touch of his Orphean ...
... fair district of their native isle A free inheritance , compact and clear . How sweet the vivyfying dawn to him , Who with a fond paternal eye can trace Beloved scenes , where rivers groves , and lawns Rise at the touch of his Orphean ...
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... fair truth ! Yet I am thine , on thy perennial base I will inscribe my monumental verse ; And tho ' my heart with kindred ardour beats To every brave compatriot , yet no ties , Tho ' dignified with friendship's specious name , Shall ...
... fair truth ! Yet I am thine , on thy perennial base I will inscribe my monumental verse ; And tho ' my heart with kindred ardour beats To every brave compatriot , yet no ties , Tho ' dignified with friendship's specious name , Shall ...
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... Fair as a fabled nymph ; Nature had spread Her toilet , Health her handmaid dealt the bloom , Simplicity attir'd her ; by the copse Skirting the horn - beam row , where violets bud And the first primrose opens to the spring , With her ...
... Fair as a fabled nymph ; Nature had spread Her toilet , Health her handmaid dealt the bloom , Simplicity attir'd her ; by the copse Skirting the horn - beam row , where violets bud And the first primrose opens to the spring , With her ...
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... fair ground whereon the controversy should have been decided , and here it would infallibly have been brought to issue ; but they know their weapons bet- ter than to trust them in so close a conflict . The maxims of some heathen ...
... fair ground whereon the controversy should have been decided , and here it would infallibly have been brought to issue ; but they know their weapons bet- ter than to trust them in so close a conflict . The maxims of some heathen ...
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Æneid Æschylus Altamont amongst Aristophanes Athenian Athens Attalus Banquo Beaumelle Ben Jonson better Calista called captain Cecrops character Charalois charms Christ comedy confess contempt cried Cynthia death Don Manuel drama Erichthonius Euripides eyes fable Fair Penitent Falstaff Fatal Dowry father favour fortune genius gentleman give Greek hand happy hath heart honour hope Horatio human humour incident inquisidor Lady Touchwood living Lord Touchwood Lothario Macbeth manner Maskwell Mellafont ment merit mind miracle moral Musidorus nature never Nicolas Novall NUMBER observe passed passion Pedrosa person Pisistratus pity play plot poet present racter reader reason replied Romont Saint Mark Sappho scene seems Shakspeare Sir Paul Socrates soul spirit stage striking style taste tell thee thing thou thought tion took tragedy truth turn Volpone whilst wife words write XXXIII young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Página 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Página 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Página 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Página 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Página 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Página 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Página 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Página 123 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...