Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... , it appears to us , that it will have the effect of giving the whole speculation greater * FRASER'S MAGAZINE . Dec. 1844 . value and interest if , in addition to Milton's Satan THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S IV.
... , it appears to us , that it will have the effect of giving the whole speculation greater * FRASER'S MAGAZINE . Dec. 1844 . value and interest if , in addition to Milton's Satan THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S IV.
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... existence . A portion of this sketch appeared in the numbers of the Dublin University Magazine for July , August , and October , 1851. The rest is now published for the first time . Well , eighty years ago , there was " a.
... existence . A portion of this sketch appeared in the numbers of the Dublin University Magazine for July , August , and October , 1851. The rest is now published for the first time . Well , eighty years ago , there was " a.
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... magazines , poetry , whatever in the shape of a printed volume came in his way - all were eagerly pounced upon and devoured ; and it was not long before his reputation in this respect enabled him to lay one or two circulating libraries ...
... magazines , poetry , whatever in the shape of a printed volume came in his way - all were eagerly pounced upon and devoured ; and it was not long before his reputation in this respect enabled him to lay one or two circulating libraries ...
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... attorney's apprentice , accustomed to small flirtations ; accustomed to debate and have brawls with other attorney's apprentices , to read the newspapers and magazines , to be present at street mobs and public 208 CHATTERTON :
... attorney's apprentice , accustomed to small flirtations ; accustomed to debate and have brawls with other attorney's apprentices , to read the newspapers and magazines , to be present at street mobs and public 208 CHATTERTON :
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Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. magazines , to be present at street mobs and public meetings , and in every other way to take an apprentice's interest in the current ongoings of the day . In short , besides being an antiquarian ...
Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. magazines , to be present at street mobs and public meetings , and in every other way to take an apprentice's interest in the current ongoings of the day . In short , besides being an antiquarian ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...