The Quarterly Review, Volume 131John Murray, 1871 - English literature |
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... of the text as it first left the hands of the poet ' s literary executors . Mr . Neil ' s
little book has done good service in presenting the facts of the poet ' s biography ,
and the most material documents relating to it , in their strict chronological order .
... of the text as it first left the hands of the poet ' s literary executors . Mr . Neil ' s
little book has done good service in presenting the facts of the poet ' s biography ,
and the most material documents relating to it , in their strict chronological order .
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In Shakspeare , on the other hand , the action , like Nature , is ever advancing ,
never still ; rapid , but imperceptible ; ' like the summer grass — unseen , but
crescent in its faculty . Even in the feeblest of his plays — if such a term can be
applied ...
In Shakspeare , on the other hand , the action , like Nature , is ever advancing ,
never still ; rapid , but imperceptible ; ' like the summer grass — unseen , but
crescent in its faculty . Even in the feeblest of his plays — if such a term can be
applied ...
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Probably both : they were plain men who had their own occupations to attend to ,
and when they had consigned their precious deposit to the printer ' s hands , they
might naturally think that their task was ended , and they had fulfilled their debt ...
Probably both : they were plain men who had their own occupations to attend to ,
and when they had consigned their precious deposit to the printer ' s hands , they
might naturally think that their task was ended , and they had fulfilled their debt ...
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... What story coldly tells , what poets feign At second hand and picture without
brain , Senseless and soulless shows 'but with their full complement of humanity ,
action , thought , feelings , words , infinite shades of expressions and emotions .
... What story coldly tells , what poets feign At second hand and picture without
brain , Senseless and soulless shows 'but with their full complement of humanity ,
action , thought , feelings , words , infinite shades of expressions and emotions .
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... forms such as never were in nature , as the Heroes , Demigods , Cyclops ,
Chimæras , Furies , and such like ; so as he goeth hand in hand with nature , not
inclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts , but freely ranging within the
zodiac of ...
... forms such as never were in nature , as the Heroes , Demigods , Cyclops ,
Chimæras , Furies , and such like ; so as he goeth hand in hand with nature , not
inclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts , but freely ranging within the
zodiac of ...
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Page 26 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 372 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruin'd battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 378 - Vere, You pine among your halls and towers : The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease, You know so ill to deal with time, You needs must play such pranks as these. Clara, Clara Vere de Vere, If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read, Or teach the orphan-girl to sew, Pray Heaven for a human heart, And let the...
Page 379 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 388 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 376 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space: I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 388 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 26 - It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his friends the office of their care and pain to have collected and published them...
Page 369 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 371 - t was a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 131 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1871 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Jan 2008 |
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