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... remarkable change had begun to take place in this particular . Histo- ries , and long poems of devotion and chivalry , were already translated out of the Romance or French language into English , and these in such numbers as ...
... remarkable change had begun to take place in this particular . Histo- ries , and long poems of devotion and chivalry , were already translated out of the Romance or French language into English , and these in such numbers as ...
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... remarkable ex- ample of this class of comic romances is entitled , " The Hunting of the Hare . " A yeoman , having found a hare sitting in the common field of a village , announces his discovery to the inhabitants . The peasants ...
... remarkable ex- ample of this class of comic romances is entitled , " The Hunting of the Hare . " A yeoman , having found a hare sitting in the common field of a village , announces his discovery to the inhabitants . The peasants ...
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... remarkable when we compare the tragedies of the two countries , is much less conspi- cuous in their comic dramas ; where setting aside their emancipation from the tenets of the Stagyrite , the English comic writers do , or ought to ...
... remarkable when we compare the tragedies of the two countries , is much less conspi- cuous in their comic dramas ; where setting aside their emancipation from the tenets of the Stagyrite , the English comic writers do , or ought to ...
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... remarkable as attending the representation of this excellent satire ; first , that an old man , starting up in the parterre , exclaimed , " Courage , Molière , this is real comedy ! " and , secondly , that the author himself ...
... remarkable as attending the representation of this excellent satire ; first , that an old man , starting up in the parterre , exclaimed , " Courage , Molière , this is real comedy ! " and , secondly , that the author himself ...
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... remarkable of his performances , the celebrated Tartuffe , in which he has unmasked and branded vice , as in his lighter pieces he has chastised folly . This piece had been acted before Louis , before his queen , and his mother , and at ...
... remarkable of his performances , the celebrated Tartuffe , in which he has unmasked and branded vice , as in his lighter pieces he has chastised folly . This piece had been acted before Louis , before his queen , and his mother , and at ...
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Página 343 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me.
Página 86 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 247 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 332 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Página 259 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 343 - Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story...
Página 342 - The foe, the fool, the jealous, and the vain, The envious who but breathe in others' pain, Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave, Watch...
Página 277 - Touch'd by the music, and the melting scene, Was scarce one tearless eye amidst the crowd : — Stern warriors, resting on their swords, were seen To veil their eyes, as pass'd each much-loved shroud, While woman's softer soul in woe dissolved aloud.
Página 285 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Página 278 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there, in desolation cold, The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old.