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... body forth what he had Dryden's praises were ample payment for not seen . * " But let a monster Muscovite appear , He draws a crowded audience all the year . " his picture . * It is an interesting fact that 46 NOTES ON BRITISH POETS .
... body forth what he had Dryden's praises were ample payment for not seen . * " But let a monster Muscovite appear , He draws a crowded audience all the year . " his picture . * It is an interesting fact that 46 NOTES ON BRITISH POETS .
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... picture by Kneller , " observes Dr. Anderson , in the Life of Dryden , " would lead us to suppose that he was graceful in his person ; but Kneller was a great mender of nature . " On this , H. C. remarks , " Kneller has hit Dryden's ...
... picture by Kneller , " observes Dr. Anderson , in the Life of Dryden , " would lead us to suppose that he was graceful in his person ; but Kneller was a great mender of nature . " On this , H. C. remarks , " Kneller has hit Dryden's ...
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... picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's The Apollo , the Venus , the Laocoon , are not mere matters of history . The genius of Shakspeare does not rest on testimony . It is , and will be while the earth endures . The body of ...
... picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's The Apollo , the Venus , the Laocoon , are not mere matters of history . The genius of Shakspeare does not rest on testimony . It is , and will be while the earth endures . The body of ...
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... pictures , strong versification , and manly though somewhat rigid diction . But I cannot con- ceive a man with an eye so completely reverted as to talk of Rome without an allusion to the greater dominion she exercised after her pagan ...
... pictures , strong versification , and manly though somewhat rigid diction . But I cannot con- ceive a man with an eye so completely reverted as to talk of Rome without an allusion to the greater dominion she exercised after her pagan ...
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... picture ? May not many Shylocks learn from Shakspeare's what a crocodile's egg they are warming in their bosom , though happily our climate may never allow it to produce anything bigger than a venomous newt ? He that hateth his brother ...
... picture ? May not many Shylocks learn from Shakspeare's what a crocodile's egg they are warming in their bosom , though happily our climate may never allow it to produce anything bigger than a venomous newt ? He that hateth his brother ...
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Seite 327 - Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
Seite 281 - The imperial ensign ; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind...
Seite 22 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance...
Seite 134 - I see them, with their comely, middle-aged visages, their dainty white ruffs and toys, their half-witch-like conic hats, their full farthingales, their neat though not overslim waists, their housewifely keys, their girdles, their sly laughing looks, their apple-red cheeks, their brows the lines whereon look more like the work of mirth than years. And sweet Anne Page — she U a pretty little creature whom one would like to take on one's knee.
Seite 94 - I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble and of greater dignity both for the sound and number than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation.
Seite 310 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 89 - I intend to send you two or three poems of Mr Pope", the best poet of England, and at present, of all the world.
Seite 75 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 249 - This exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
Seite 133 - That Queen Bess should have desired to see Falstaff making love proves her to have been, as she was, a gross-minded old baggage. Shakespeare has evaded the difficulty with great skill. He knew that Falstaff could not be in love ; and has mixed but a little, a very little, pruritus with his fortune-hunting courtship. But the Falstaff of the Merry Wives is not the Falstaff of Henry IV.