Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... Englishmen of the present day as the letters of the English alphabet . M. Guizot , with a little inaccuracy , has made these leading facts in the life of the English poet tolerably familiar even to our 6 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
... Englishmen of the present day as the letters of the English alphabet . M. Guizot , with a little inaccuracy , has made these leading facts in the life of the English poet tolerably familiar even to our 6 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
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... letters of business . Not till the matter is fairly concluded are the recreations of music and literature resumed ; though then , pos- sibly , with a keener zest and a mind more full and fresh than before . Precisely so it is on the ...
... letters of business . Not till the matter is fairly concluded are the recreations of music and literature resumed ; though then , pos- sibly , with a keener zest and a mind more full and fresh than before . Precisely so it is on the ...
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... letters of business , so , in this , the literary activity of the community exhausts itself in newspaper - articles , public speeches , and pamphlets , more or less elaborate , on the present crisis . There may be a vast amount of mind ...
... letters of business , so , in this , the literary activity of the community exhausts itself in newspaper - articles , public speeches , and pamphlets , more or less elaborate , on the present crisis . There may be a vast amount of mind ...
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... letters . He was , in fact , a man of general intellectual strength , which he was willing to let out in any kind of tolerably honest intellectual service that might be in fashion . This being the case , he set the right way to work to ...
... letters . He was , in fact , a man of general intellectual strength , which he was willing to let out in any kind of tolerably honest intellectual service that might be in fashion . This being the case , he set the right way to work to ...
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... letters patent , conferred on Dryden a permanent additional salary of 1007. a - year , thus raising the annual income of the laureateship to 3007. The explanation of this unusual piece of liberality on the part of James , has been ...
... letters patent , conferred on Dryden a permanent additional salary of 1007. a - year , thus raising the annual income of the laureateship to 3007. The explanation of this unusual piece of liberality on the part of James , has been ...
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Página 11 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Página 3 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Página 54 - 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 433 - Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...
Página 452 - 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 Absalom!
Página 47 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 370 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Página 453 - ... 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 453 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Página 27 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
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