Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... means , bequeathed to the memory of the human race an immense number of verses , and to its imagination a great variety of ideal characters and creations - Lears , Othellos , Hamlets , Falstaffs , Shallows , Imogens , Mirandas , Ariels ...
... means , bequeathed to the memory of the human race an immense number of verses , and to its imagination a great variety of ideal characters and creations - Lears , Othellos , Hamlets , Falstaffs , Shallows , Imogens , Mirandas , Ariels ...
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... means of spreading , or , at all events , as a medium through which to insinuate , his opinions ; and often indicating his purposes by the very names of his dramatis persona ( as Downright , Merecraft , Eitherside , and the like ) -then ...
... means of spreading , or , at all events , as a medium through which to insinuate , his opinions ; and often indicating his purposes by the very names of his dramatis persona ( as Downright , Merecraft , Eitherside , and the like ) -then ...
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... mean anything so absurd as that the author of Falstaff was a Werther . What we mean is , that there is evidence in the sonnets , corroborated by other proof on all hands , that the mind of Shakespeare , when left to itself , was apt to ...
... mean anything so absurd as that the author of Falstaff was a Werther . What we mean is , that there is evidence in the sonnets , corroborated by other proof on all hands , that the mind of Shakespeare , when left to itself , was apt to ...
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... means of spreading , or , at all events , as a medium through which to insinuate , his opinions ; and often indicating his purposes by the very names of his dramatis persona ( as Downright , Merecraft , Eitherside , and the like ) —then ...
... means of spreading , or , at all events , as a medium through which to insinuate , his opinions ; and often indicating his purposes by the very names of his dramatis persona ( as Downright , Merecraft , Eitherside , and the like ) —then ...
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... us , with demands for a definition of intellect , which we are by no means in a position to give ; nay , finally , to say that he is the greatest poet that the world has produced ( a thing which we would 22 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 22.
... us , with demands for a definition of intellect , which we are by no means in a position to give ; nay , finally , to say that he is the greatest poet that the world has produced ( a thing which we would 22 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 22.
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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...