Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... tragedy of rich and com- plex materials , but the French tragedy of heroic declamation . Familiarized by their stay in France with the tragic style of Corneille and other dramatists of the court of Louis XIV . , the royalists brought ...
... tragedy of rich and com- plex materials , but the French tragedy of heroic declamation . Familiarized by their stay in France with the tragic style of Corneille and other dramatists of the court of Louis XIV . , the royalists brought ...
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... tragedies after the French model . He was also , far more than Cowley , a wit of the new school ; and , as a versifier , he practised , with no small reputation , the neat , lucid style introduced by Denham and Waller . He was the ...
... tragedies after the French model . He was also , far more than Cowley , a wit of the new school ; and , as a versifier , he practised , with no small reputation , the neat , lucid style introduced by Denham and Waller . He was the ...
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... tragedy , called The Indian Queen . The date of this effort of literary co- partnership between Dryden and his aristocratic friend , coincides with the formation of a more intimate connexion between them , by Dryden's marriage with Sir ...
... tragedy , called The Indian Queen . The date of this effort of literary co- partnership between Dryden and his aristocratic friend , coincides with the formation of a more intimate connexion between them , by Dryden's marriage with Sir ...
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... Tragedy against those who preferred the older Elizabethan Tragedy of blank verse ; and so powerful a con- tribution was it to this great controversy of the day , that it produced an immediate sensation in all literary circles . Sir ...
... Tragedy against those who preferred the older Elizabethan Tragedy of blank verse ; and so powerful a con- tribution was it to this great controversy of the day , that it produced an immediate sensation in all literary circles . Sir ...
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... tragedies under the titles Tyrannic Love , and The Conquest of Granada , the latter being in two parts . These were all ... tragedy of Tyrannic Love . Probably there was never such a scene of ecstasy in a theatre , as when Nell , after ...
... tragedies under the titles Tyrannic Love , and The Conquest of Granada , the latter being in two parts . These were all ... tragedy of Tyrannic Love . Probably there was never such a scene of ecstasy in a theatre , as when Nell , after ...
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Página 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Página 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Página 44 - 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 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Página 440 - 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...
Página 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Página 441 - ... 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 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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Wordsworth and the Formation of English Studies Ian Reid No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2004 |