Latest Literary Essays ; The Old English DramatistsRiverside Press, 1889 - 461 Seiten |
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... person might say that the world can get on much better without the finest verses that ever were written than without common sense , and I am willing to admit that the question is a de- batable one , and to compromise upon uncom- mon ...
... person might say that the world can get on much better without the finest verses that ever were written than without common sense , and I am willing to admit that the question is a de- batable one , and to compromise upon uncom- mon ...
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... persons saw a swarm of ominous question - marks wherever they turned their eyes ; but sensible people pronounced them the mere muscae volitantes of indigestion which an honest dose of rhubarb would disperse . Men read Rousseau for ...
... persons saw a swarm of ominous question - marks wherever they turned their eyes ; but sensible people pronounced them the mere muscae volitantes of indigestion which an honest dose of rhubarb would disperse . Men read Rousseau for ...
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... person was of more importance both to himself and others then than now , and that self - consciousness was , accordingly , a vast deal more comfortable be- cause it had less need of conscious self - assertion . But the Past always has ...
... person was of more importance both to himself and others then than now , and that self - consciousness was , accordingly , a vast deal more comfortable be- cause it had less need of conscious self - assertion . But the Past always has ...
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... person ( as for a time they were in Goethe ) , for genius implies always a certain fanaticism of temperament , which , if sometimes it seem fit- ful , is yet capable of intense energy on occa- sion , while the main characteristic of the ...
... person ( as for a time they were in Goethe ) , for genius implies always a certain fanaticism of temperament , which , if sometimes it seem fit- ful , is yet capable of intense energy on occa- sion , while the main characteristic of the ...
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... pleasure of the thing . " And to Mason he writes in September , 1753 : " I know what it is to lose a person that one's eyes and heart have long been used to , and I may not intercept us at Newark , for we have. VIII GRAY 35.
... pleasure of the thing . " And to Mason he writes in September , 1753 : " I know what it is to lose a person that one's eyes and heart have long been used to , and I may not intercept us at Newark , for we have. VIII GRAY 35.
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Seite 182 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 207 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can...
Seite 271 - There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Seite 187 - Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Seite 211 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Seite 222 - I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings...
Seite 88 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Seite 293 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Seite 312 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 42 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.