The Quarterly Review, Volume 131John Murray, 1871 - English literature |
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... least implies that he had some knowledge of both - enough of Latin to read ordinary Latin books and translations , and more than enough of genius to extract from what he did read the pith and substance . It was an age through- out of ...
... least implies that he had some knowledge of both - enough of Latin to read ordinary Latin books and translations , and more than enough of genius to extract from what he did read the pith and substance . It was an age through- out of ...
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... least obviously remarkable for any peculiarity of sound or antithesis , or for those factitious qualities which catch the undisciplined fancy , have grown into household words , only less numerous than those of the Bible , it is ...
... least obviously remarkable for any peculiarity of sound or antithesis , or for those factitious qualities which catch the undisciplined fancy , have grown into household words , only less numerous than those of the Bible , it is ...
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... least idealised forms . From 1585 , when Shakspeare is supposed to have taken up his residence in London , to 1598 , we have very few data to determine the poet's circumstances , conduct , or specific employ- ments . That he was ...
... least idealised forms . From 1585 , when Shakspeare is supposed to have taken up his residence in London , to 1598 , we have very few data to determine the poet's circumstances , conduct , or specific employ- ments . That he was ...
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... least so many of the Sonnets - if they were written , as some critics imagine , at different intervals - as to justify Meres's encomium of them , which we make no scruple of repeating here , were it only to disusabe some of our readers ...
... least so many of the Sonnets - if they were written , as some critics imagine , at different intervals - as to justify Meres's encomium of them , which we make no scruple of repeating here , were it only to disusabe some of our readers ...
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... least within the bounds of human probability are Falstaff and Richard III .: the former as the ideal humourist , the type and catholic original of those eccentricities , which Shakspeare's contemporaries tried to draw , but could not ...
... least within the bounds of human probability are Falstaff and Richard III .: the former as the ideal humourist , the type and catholic original of those eccentricities , which Shakspeare's contemporaries tried to draw , but could not ...
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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.