Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... Shoreditch , where a Mrs. Ballance , a distant relative of his mother's , and who had already been written to on the subject , resided ; and the other , that his first care on his arrival should be to seek out Mr. Edmunds , at the ...
... Shoreditch , where a Mrs. Ballance , a distant relative of his mother's , and who had already been written to on the subject , resided ; and the other , that his first care on his arrival should be to seek out Mr. Edmunds , at the ...
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... SHOREDITCH . READER , were you ever in Shoreditch ? If you are an inha- bitant of London , you know or may know all about it ; if not , get a map of London , and you will see that the locality named Shoreditch forms part of one of the ...
... SHOREDITCH . READER , were you ever in Shoreditch ? If you are an inha- bitant of London , you know or may know all about it ; if not , get a map of London , and you will see that the locality named Shoreditch forms part of one of the ...
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... Shoreditch proper , the principal street of a populous parish of the same name . Tradition ascribes the origin of the name to the circumstance that Jane Shore , the mistress of Edward IV . , ended her life here , - " Within a ditch of ...
... Shoreditch proper , the principal street of a populous parish of the same name . Tradition ascribes the origin of the name to the circumstance that Jane Shore , the mistress of Edward IV . , ended her life here , - " Within a ditch of ...
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... Shoreditch , asking her to secure a lodging for him against his arrival . Mrs. Ballance , whom we picture as an elderly female , the widow of some seafaring man , living in London in a meagre , eleemosynary way , appears to have replied ...
... Shoreditch , asking her to secure a lodging for him against his arrival . Mrs. Ballance , whom we picture as an elderly female , the widow of some seafaring man , living in London in a meagre , eleemosynary way , appears to have replied ...
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... Shoreditch , Norton Folgate , and Bishopsgate- street , towards the city , bent as he was on calling that very evening on the four gentlemen mentioned in his letter- Mr. Edmunds , Mr. Fell , Mr. Hamilton , and Mr. Dodsley . Let us see ...
... Shoreditch , Norton Folgate , and Bishopsgate- street , towards the city , bent as he was on calling that very evening on the four gentlemen mentioned in his letter- Mr. Edmunds , Mr. Fell , Mr. Hamilton , and Mr. Dodsley . Let us see ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...