Shakspeare and His TimesHarper, 1852 - 360 pages |
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... poet must necessarily pur- sue ; he must elevate and civilize , as it were , the crowd that he summons to hear his performance . How can he act upon the assembled multitude , except by an appeal to the most general and elevated ...
... poet must necessarily pur- sue ; he must elevate and civilize , as it were , the crowd that he summons to hear his performance . How can he act upon the assembled multitude , except by an appeal to the most general and elevated ...
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... poet does not possess , in the suf frages of a larger and more simple public , the means of defending himself against the haughty taste of a select coterie - if he can not arm himself with public approba- tion , and rely for support ...
... poet does not possess , in the suf frages of a larger and more simple public , the means of defending himself against the haughty taste of a select coterie - if he can not arm himself with public approba- tion , and rely for support ...
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... poet at the present day ; but a circum- stance related by Aubrey does not permit us to doubt its correctness , and at the same time reveals to us that his young imagination was already incapable of subjecting itself to so vile an ...
... poet at the present day ; but a circum- stance related by Aubrey does not permit us to doubt its correctness , and at the same time reveals to us that his young imagination was already incapable of subjecting itself to so vile an ...
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... poet participated , with all the population of the surrounding country , in the pleasure and admiration excited by these pompous spectacles . What an impulse would the imag- ination of Shakspeare not fail to receive ! Nevertheless , the ...
... poet participated , with all the population of the surrounding country , in the pleasure and admiration excited by these pompous spectacles . What an impulse would the imag- ination of Shakspeare not fail to receive ! Nevertheless , the ...
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... poet , who is formed by nature alone . Nothing reveals him so speedily to him- self ; he must have felt much before he can think he has any thing to portray ; his first powers will be spent in ac- tion — in such irregular action as may ...
... poet , who is formed by nature alone . Nothing reveals him so speedily to him- self ; he must have felt much before he can think he has any thing to portray ; his first powers will be spent in ac- tion — in such irregular action as may ...
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Page 283 - Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 274 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 283 - No more of that ; — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 100 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 38 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Page 40 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 109 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Page 40 - CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair, Fresh-quilted colors through the air. Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree!
Page 163 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.