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... great poets , who want invention , originality , fervour , taste , nature : to find ex- travagance mistaken for genius ; and wanton frip- pery for simple force and pathos ; tasteless and revolting coarseness for true and powerful des ...
... great poets , who want invention , originality , fervour , taste , nature : to find ex- travagance mistaken for genius ; and wanton frip- pery for simple force and pathos ; tasteless and revolting coarseness for true and powerful des ...
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... great ge- nius , who has a morbid sensibility to the capri- cious opinions of an unjust and misled Public , would not do well to refrain in the strictest manner from all intercourse with cotemporary literature , and content himself with ...
... great ge- nius , who has a morbid sensibility to the capri- cious opinions of an unjust and misled Public , would not do well to refrain in the strictest manner from all intercourse with cotemporary literature , and content himself with ...
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... great and valiant men , exercised myself some time in your delightful country of Friuli , over which I had occasion at different times , publicly or privately , to travel . I was accustomed , in my expeditions , to lead with me , among ...
... great and valiant men , exercised myself some time in your delightful country of Friuli , over which I had occasion at different times , publicly or privately , to travel . I was accustomed , in my expeditions , to lead with me , among ...
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... great danger in following him ; in testimony of which , if it pleases you , and to render the journey less irksome and solitary , I will relate you a tale of our City , in which you will perceive how two noble lovers were conducted by ...
... great danger in following him ; in testimony of which , if it pleases you , and to render the journey less irksome and solitary , I will relate you a tale of our City , in which you will perceive how two noble lovers were conducted by ...
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... may be , I will tell you the story as I heard it , without alteration . These families were then , under the said Prince , equally endowed by Heaven and by Fortune , with valiant men and great riches , and 4 JULIETTA .
... may be , I will tell you the story as I heard it , without alteration . These families were then , under the said Prince , equally endowed by Heaven and by Fortune , with valiant men and great riches , and 4 JULIETTA .
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Page 46 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear : Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 45 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 45 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 46 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page viii - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 231 - Le blason des armoiries de tous les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or...
Page 450 - Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects...
Page 363 - France ruinée sous le règne de Louis XIV, par qui et comment, avec les moyens de la rétablir en peu de temps...
Page 446 - Every reader of this journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Page 190 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . < To scorn delights, and live laborious days.