Latest Literary Essays and AddressesHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 - 322 Seiten |
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... wrote with ease . Through the whole eighteenth century the artificial school of poetry reigned by a kind of undivine right over a public which admired - and yawned . This public seems to have listened to its poets as it did to its ...
... wrote with ease . Through the whole eighteenth century the artificial school of poetry reigned by a kind of undivine right over a public which admired - and yawned . This public seems to have listened to its poets as it did to its ...
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... wrote that . Walpole's explanation is of the same purport : " I was young , too fond of my own diversion ; nay , I do not doubt too much in- toxicated by indulgence , vanity , and the insolences of my situation as a Prime Minister's son ...
... wrote that . Walpole's explanation is of the same purport : " I was young , too fond of my own diversion ; nay , I do not doubt too much in- toxicated by indulgence , vanity , and the insolences of my situation as a Prime Minister's son ...
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... wrote no more . Twelve years later , it is true , he writes to Walpole : - 6 999 " What has one to do , when turned of fifty , but really to think of finishing ? . . However , I will be candid · and avow to you that , till fourscore and ...
... wrote no more . Twelve years later , it is true , he writes to Walpole : - 6 999 " What has one to do , when turned of fifty , but really to think of finishing ? . . However , I will be candid · and avow to you that , till fourscore and ...
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... wrote excellent letters himself , and therefore had studied the art , says , writing to Hill in 1777 : - " I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better . His humor , or his wit , or whatever ...
... wrote excellent letters himself , and therefore had studied the art , says , writing to Hill in 1777 : - " I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better . His humor , or his wit , or whatever ...
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... wrote to you only to beg you would take care of her , and to inform you that I had discovered a thing very little known , which is , that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a single mother . You may think this obvious ...
... wrote to you only to beg you would take care of her , and to inform you that I had discovered a thing very little known , which is , that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a single mother . You may think this obvious ...
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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.