Latest Literary Essays and AddressesHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 - 322 Seiten |
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... play which he had not the innate force to rouse into more profitable activity . Gray's melancholy was that of Richard II . : - " I wasted time , and now doth time waste me , For now hath time made me his numbering - clock . " Whatever ...
... play which he had not the innate force to rouse into more profitable activity . Gray's melancholy was that of Richard II . : - " I wasted time , and now doth time waste me , For now hath time made me his numbering - clock . " Whatever ...
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... play ; that he is often trivial and not seldom slow ; that he now and again misses the true mean that can be grave without heaviness and light without levity , though he would have dilated on that virtue of our composite tongue which ...
... play ; that he is often trivial and not seldom slow ; that he now and again misses the true mean that can be grave without heaviness and light without levity , though he would have dilated on that virtue of our composite tongue which ...
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... play in re- spect of which I find myself in the position of Peter Bell , seeing little more than an ordinary primrose where I ought , perhaps , to see the plant and flower of light ; I mean the play of " Richard III . " Hor- ace Walpole ...
... play in re- spect of which I find myself in the position of Peter Bell , seeing little more than an ordinary primrose where I ought , perhaps , to see the plant and flower of light ; I mean the play of " Richard III . " Hor- ace Walpole ...
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... play in hand to remodel it for his company , it would be the experience of the actor much more than the genius of the poet that would be called into play . His work would lie in the direction probably of curtailment oftener than of ...
... play in hand to remodel it for his company , it would be the experience of the actor much more than the genius of the poet that would be called into play . His work would lie in the direction probably of curtailment oftener than of ...
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... play thinking it is his , it is astonishing how many things we excuse , and how many things we slur over , and so on , for various reasons not very satisfactory , I think , if strictly cross - examined . How easily a preconceived idea ...
... play thinking it is his , it is astonishing how many things we excuse , and how many things we slur over , and so on , for various reasons not very satisfactory , I think , if strictly cross - examined . How easily a preconceived idea ...
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Seite 199 - 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 314 - 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 36 - 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.
Seite 278 - 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 224 - Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Seite 234 - 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 72 - 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 220 - 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...
Seite 117 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Seite 233 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.