The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen 6David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... Poets Who Made Shakespeare Possible LIVED PAGE 1777-1859 2045 HAMERTON , PHILIP GILBERT 1834-1894 2056 Women and Marriage To a Lady of High Culture HAMILTON , ALEXANDER 1757-1804 2062 On War between the States of the Union HARE , J. C. ...
... Poets Who Made Shakespeare Possible LIVED PAGE 1777-1859 2045 HAMERTON , PHILIP GILBERT 1834-1894 2056 Women and Marriage To a Lady of High Culture HAMILTON , ALEXANDER 1757-1804 2062 On War between the States of the Union HARE , J. C. ...
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... Poets " 1784-1859 2269 Charles Lamb Light and Color Petrarch and Laura Moral and Personal Courage HUXLEY , THOMAS HENRY 1825-1895 2276 On the Method of Zadig INGALLS , JOHN JAMES 1833-1900 2291 Blue Grass IRVING , WASHINGTON Bracebridge ...
... Poets " 1784-1859 2269 Charles Lamb Light and Color Petrarch and Laura Moral and Personal Courage HUXLEY , THOMAS HENRY 1825-1895 2276 On the Method of Zadig INGALLS , JOHN JAMES 1833-1900 2291 Blue Grass IRVING , WASHINGTON Bracebridge ...
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... POETS WHO MADE SHAKESPEARE POSSIBLE IN THE latter end of King Henry the Eighth's reign , " says Put- tenham in his " Art of Poesie , » « sprung up a new company of courtly makers , of whom Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder and Henry , Earl of ...
... POETS WHO MADE SHAKESPEARE POSSIBLE IN THE latter end of King Henry the Eighth's reign , " says Put- tenham in his " Art of Poesie , » « sprung up a new company of courtly makers , of whom Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder and Henry , Earl of ...
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... poets , which I extract the more willingly that it is found in a publication somewhat bulky and expensive for the readers : - mass of They were men whose minds may be said to have been cast in the same mold , for they differ only in ...
... poets , which I extract the more willingly that it is found in a publication somewhat bulky and expensive for the readers : - mass of They were men whose minds may be said to have been cast in the same mold , for they differ only in ...
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... poets he is original as well as pleasing . In his numerous trans- lations from Petrarch he is seldom inferior to his master ; and he seldom improves upon him . Wyatt is almost always below the Ital- ian , and frequently degrades a good ...
... poets he is original as well as pleasing . In his numerous trans- lations from Petrarch he is seldom inferior to his master ; and he seldom improves upon him . Wyatt is almost always below the Ital- ian , and frequently degrades a good ...
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Página 2338 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Página 2273 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Página 2334 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Página 2321 - ... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted...
Página 2199 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Página 2438 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Página 2402 - 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 out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 2402 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 2126 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections — shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Página 2400 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.