Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... perhaps less , but the proportion of the face to the head is greater , and there is more of that determinate form which arises from prominence and strength in the bony structure . The features are individually larger , and present in ...
... perhaps less , but the proportion of the face to the head is greater , and there is more of that determinate form which arises from prominence and strength in the bony structure . The features are individually larger , and present in ...
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... 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 Tavern . " Many were the ...
... 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 Tavern . " Many were the ...
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... perhaps the best phrase we could here use ; and whatever of inappropriateness there may seem to be in it , proceeds from false associations , and will vanish , we hope , before we have done with it . Nor let it be supposed that , in ...
... perhaps the best phrase we could here use ; and whatever of inappropriateness there may seem to be in it , proceeds from false associations , and will vanish , we hope , before we have done with it . Nor let it be supposed that , in ...
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... perhaps at first from some root of bitter experience in his own life , and then fed , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own " outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around It ...
... perhaps at first from some root of bitter experience in his own life , and then fed , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own " outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around It ...
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... perhaps at first from some root of bitter experience in his own life , and then fed , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around 66 ...
... perhaps at first from some root of bitter experience in his own life , and then fed , as his sonnets clearly state , by a habitual sense of his own outcast " condition in society , and by the sight of a hundred social wrongs around 66 ...
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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...