Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... various topics , contributed , during the last ten or twelve years , to Reviews and other periodicals . Had the selection been large enough to represent the entire series of compositions from which it is taken , the Author would have ...
... various topics , contributed , during the last ten or twelve years , to Reviews and other periodicals . Had the selection been large enough to represent the entire series of compositions from which it is taken , the Author would have ...
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... various gods in our modern Pantheon of genius . It contains rough gods and smooth gods , gods of symmetry and gods of strength , gods great and terrible , gods middling and respectable , and little cupids and toy - gods . Out of this ...
... various gods in our modern Pantheon of genius . It contains rough gods and smooth gods , gods of symmetry and gods of strength , gods great and terrible , gods middling and respectable , and little cupids and toy - gods . Out of this ...
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... various ; there may , perhaps , be about a dozen of them in all ; but the only ones that take a very decided hold on the imagination are the three following : - Fuller's fancy - picture of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid ...
... various ; there may , perhaps , be about a dozen of them in all ; but the only ones that take a very decided hold on the imagination are the three following : - Fuller's fancy - picture of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid ...
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... various youthful attachments , and the various ways in which they were con- cluded . In Goethe's own narratives of these affairs , there is a confession of error , arising out of his disposition passionately to abandon himself to the ...
... various youthful attachments , and the various ways in which they were con- cluded . In Goethe's own narratives of these affairs , there is a confession of error , arising out of his disposition passionately to abandon himself to the ...
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... various writings and conversations . We present a few important passages here , in what seems their philosophic con- nexion , as well as the order most suitable for bringing out Goethe's mode of thought in contrast with that of ...
... various writings and conversations . We present a few important passages here , in what seems their philosophic con- nexion , as well as the order most suitable for bringing out Goethe's mode of thought in contrast with that of ...
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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...