Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... death . This would suffice ; and the considerate beholder could find no fault with such an arrangement . It is true , reasons might be assigned why a third mask should have been added — that of the Italian Dante ; in which case Dante ...
... death . This would suffice ; and the considerate beholder could find no fault with such an arrangement . It is true , reasons might be assigned why a third mask should have been added — that of the Italian Dante ; in which case Dante ...
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... Death , vicissitude , the march and tramp of generations across life's stage , the rotting of human bodies in the earth- these and all the other forms of the same thought were familiar to Shakespeare to a degree beyond what is to be ...
... Death , vicissitude , the march and tramp of generations across life's stage , the rotting of human bodies in the earth- these and all the other forms of the same thought were familiar to Shakespeare to a degree beyond what is to be ...
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... Death , too , had become to him a kind of actual being or fury , morally un- amiable , and deserving of reproach , — " that churl , Death . " If we turn to the plays of Shakespeare , we shall find that in them , too , the same morbid ...
... Death , too , had become to him a kind of actual being or fury , morally un- amiable , and deserving of reproach , — " that churl , Death . " If we turn to the plays of Shakespeare , we shall find that in them , too , the same morbid ...
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... death . To sum up all , however , let us turn to that unparalleled burst of lan- guage in the Tempest , in which the poet has defeated time itself by chivalrously proclaiming to all time what time can do : - " And , like the baseless ...
... death . To sum up all , however , let us turn to that unparalleled burst of lan- guage in the Tempest , in which the poet has defeated time itself by chivalrously proclaiming to all time what time can do : - " And , like the baseless ...
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... death as a matter of personal import , all great poets , and possibly all great men whatever , have to some extent resembled Shakespeare . For these are the feelings of our common nature on which religion and all solemn activity have ...
... death as a matter of personal import , all great poets , and possibly all great men whatever , have to some extent resembled Shakespeare . For these are the feelings of our common nature on which religion and all solemn activity have ...
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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...