ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xix
... Shakespeare was practical to the tips of his fingers ; a better business man than Goethe there was not within a radius of a hundred miles of Weimar . Milton's own opinion . This aspect of the question is emphasised by Milton himself ...
... Shakespeare was practical to the tips of his fingers ; a better business man than Goethe there was not within a radius of a hundred miles of Weimar . Milton's own opinion . This aspect of the question is emphasised by Milton himself ...
Page xx
... Shakespeare writes : " O ! for my sake do you with Fortune chide , The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds , That did not better for my life provide , If we Than public means , which public manners breeds : Thence comes it that my name ...
... Shakespeare writes : " O ! for my sake do you with Fortune chide , The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds , That did not better for my life provide , If we Than public means , which public manners breeds : Thence comes it that my name ...
Page xxxiii
... Shakespeare himself is linked in more than one work . It is not doing Milton any real service to ignore or deny his indebtedness to these various sources . Absolute , unqualified originality is practically impossible . Litera- ture is a ...
... Shakespeare himself is linked in more than one work . It is not doing Milton any real service to ignore or deny his indebtedness to these various sources . Absolute , unqualified originality is practically impossible . Litera- ture is a ...
Page xxxv
... Shakespeare's inferior , is lack of humour . A sense of humour means a keen sense of the incon- gruous ; and a writer with half Milton's genius but more of that sense would have shunned the incongruous element which mars Comus as a ...
... Shakespeare's inferior , is lack of humour . A sense of humour means a keen sense of the incon- gruous ; and a writer with half Milton's genius but more of that sense would have shunned the incongruous element which mars Comus as a ...
Page xxxvi
... Dante punished with the pains of Purgatory ; rather , she has something of the kindliness 1 From the sixth of the Latin Elegies , Cowper's translation . that Shakespeare attributes to his goddess Adversity , whose uses xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
... Dante punished with the pains of Purgatory ; rather , she has something of the kindliness 1 From the sixth of the Latin Elegies , Cowper's translation . that Shakespeare attributes to his goddess Adversity , whose uses xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth