Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... leave this behind . And why all this ? What are the special claims of Shakespeare to this high worship ? Through what mode of activity , practised while alive , has he won this immortality after he is dead ? The answer is simple . He ...
... leave this behind . And why all this ? What are the special claims of Shakespeare to this high worship ? Through what mode of activity , practised while alive , has he won this immortality after he is dead ? The answer is simple . He ...
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... leaving his wife and three children at Stratford ; how , con- necting himself with the Blackfriars theatre , he commenced ... leave the stage while still under forty , and return to Stratford with property sufficient to make him the most ...
... leaving his wife and three children at Stratford ; how , con- necting himself with the Blackfriars theatre , he commenced ... leave the stage while still under forty , and return to Stratford with property sufficient to make him the most ...
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... detail here , nor to tell the story which they involve as a whole . We will indicate generally , however , the impression which , we think , a close investigation of them will infallibly leave on any 12 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
... detail here , nor to tell the story which they involve as a whole . We will indicate generally , however , the impression which , we think , a close investigation of them will infallibly leave on any 12 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
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Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. a close investigation of them will infallibly leave on any thoughtful reader , as to the characteristic personal qualities of that mind , the larger and more factitious emanations from which still ...
Chiefly on English Poets David Masson. a close investigation of them will infallibly leave on any thoughtful reader , as to the characteristic personal qualities of that mind , the larger and more factitious emanations from which still ...
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... Leave not a rack behind . We are such stuff As dreams are made of ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . " This , we contend , is no mere poetic phrensy , inserted because it was dramatically suitable that Prospero should so ...
... Leave not a rack behind . We are such stuff As dreams are made of ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . " This , we contend , is no mere poetic phrensy , inserted because it was dramatically suitable that Prospero should so ...
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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...