Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... represent the entire series of compositions from which it is taken , the Author would have preferred arranging the papers included in it in the exact order in which they were written . The Essays chosen , however , having been such as ...
... represent the entire series of compositions from which it is taken , the Author would have preferred arranging the papers included in it in the exact order in which they were written . The Essays chosen , however , having been such as ...
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... represent it to us , is no mere general face or face to let , but a good , decided , and even rather singular face ; so , we would insist , he had as specific a character , as thoroughly a way of his own in thinking about things and ...
... represent it to us , is no mere general face or face to let , but a good , decided , and even rather singular face ; so , we would insist , he had as specific a character , as thoroughly a way of his own in thinking about things and ...
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... represent it as a poet . We have always fancied Hamlet to be a closer translation of Shakespeare's own character than any other of his personations . The same meditativeness , the same morbid reference at all times to the supernatural ...
... represent it as a poet . We have always fancied Hamlet to be a closer translation of Shakespeare's own character than any other of his personations . The same meditativeness , the same morbid reference at all times to the supernatural ...
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... represent it to us , is no mere general face or face to let , but a good , decided , and even rather singular face ; so , we would insist , he had as specific a character , as thoroughly a way of his own in thinking about things and ...
... represent it to us , is no mere general face or face to let , but a good , decided , and even rather singular face ; so , we would insist , he had as specific a character , as thoroughly a way of his own in thinking about things and ...
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... represent it as a poet . We have always fancied Hamlet to be a closer translation of Shakespeare's own character than any other of his personations . The same meditativeness , the same morbid reference at all times to the supernatural ...
... represent it as a poet . We have always fancied Hamlet to be a closer translation of Shakespeare's own character than any other of his personations . The same meditativeness , the same morbid reference at all times to the supernatural ...
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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...