Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 Seiten |
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... spirits , occasionally created , in whom the human faculties seem to have reached that extreme of expansion , on the slightest increase beyond which man would burst away into some other mode of being , and leave this behind . And why ...
... spirits , occasionally created , in whom the human faculties seem to have reached that extreme of expansion , on the slightest increase beyond which man would burst away into some other mode of being , and leave this behind . And why ...
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... spirit , the question should be put to us , what we can know of the halls of a palace , or the mantled tread of a king ? Still the fact is as it is ; these Sonnets of Shakespeare are auto- biographic distinctly , intensely , painfully ...
... spirit , the question should be put to us , what we can know of the halls of a palace , or the mantled tread of a king ? Still the fact is as it is ; these Sonnets of Shakespeare are auto- biographic distinctly , intensely , painfully ...
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... spirit of revenge , as if Shakespeare were retaliating , through her , upon an object horrible to himself . " Or hide me nightly in a charnel - house , O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones , With reeky shanks , and yellow ...
... spirit of revenge , as if Shakespeare were retaliating , through her , upon an object horrible to himself . " Or hide me nightly in a charnel - house , O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones , With reeky shanks , and yellow ...
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... spirit of acquiescence in things as they were , that evident conservatism of temper , that indifference , or perhaps more , to the specific contemporary forms of social and intellec- tual movement with which he has sometimes been ...
... spirit of acquiescence in things as they were , that evident conservatism of temper , that indifference , or perhaps more , to the specific contemporary forms of social and intellec- tual movement with which he has sometimes been ...
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... spirit , that such un- fathomable and unattainable excellences were already in existence ? It fared better with me fifty years ago in my own dear Germany . I could soon come to an end with all that then existed ; it could not long awe ...
... spirit , that such un- fathomable and unattainable excellences were already in existence ? It fared better with me fifty years ago in my own dear Germany . I could soon come to an end with all that then existed ; it could not long awe ...
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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...