Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... pass and repass , rather than a face grooved and charactered into any one permanent show of relation towards the outer world . Placed beside the mask of Cromwell , it would fail to impress , not only as being less massive and energetic ...
... pass and repass , rather than a face grooved and charactered into any one permanent show of relation towards the outer world . Placed beside the mask of Cromwell , it would fail to impress , not only as being less massive and energetic ...
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... pass and repass over a firmer basis of permanent character ; the tremors among the nervous tissues do not reach to such depths of sheer nervous dissolution , but sooner make impact against the solid bone . The calm in the one face is ...
... pass and repass over a firmer basis of permanent character ; the tremors among the nervous tissues do not reach to such depths of sheer nervous dissolution , but sooner make impact against the solid bone . The calm in the one face is ...
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... pass to the plays , and he will inevitably become aware of Shake- speare's personal fondness for certain themes or trains of thought , particularly that of the speed and destructiveness of time . Death , vicissitude , the march and ...
... pass to the plays , and he will inevitably become aware of Shake- speare's personal fondness for certain themes or trains of thought , particularly that of the speed and destructiveness of time . Death , vicissitude , the march and ...
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... pass their lives in silence , appearing in the world at their time , enjoying it for a season , and returning to the earth again ; marked out from among these , and appointed to be one of those whom the whole earth should remember and ...
... pass their lives in silence , appearing in the world at their time , enjoying it for a season , and returning to the earth again ; marked out from among these , and appointed to be one of those whom the whole earth should remember and ...
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... passes , by a very slight topical connexion , into an account of himself , his education , his designs , and his relations to the matter in question ; and this sometimes so elaborately and at such length , that the impres- sion is as if ...
... passes , by a very slight topical connexion , into an account of himself , his education , his designs , and his relations to the matter in question ; and this sometimes so elaborately and at such length , that the impres- sion is as if ...
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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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Wordsworth and the Formation of English Studies Ian Reid No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2004 |