Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... striking instances , say Shakspeare or Lord Bacon , which we would fain treat as prodigies , and as a marked contrast to the rudeness and barbarism that surrounded them . These we delight to dwell upon and magnify ; the praise and ...
... striking instances , say Shakspeare or Lord Bacon , which we would fain treat as prodigies , and as a marked contrast to the rudeness and barbarism that surrounded them . These we delight to dwell upon and magnify ; the praise and ...
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... strike off the rest to prevent the tendency to a superfluous population in the repub- lic of letters ; in other words , to prevent the writers from be- coming more numerous than the readers . The ancients are be- come effete in this ...
... strike off the rest to prevent the tendency to a superfluous population in the repub- lic of letters ; in other words , to prevent the writers from be- coming more numerous than the readers . The ancients are be- come effete in this ...
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... striking forms , for ornament and use . Το this every inducement prompted ; the novelty of the acquisition of knowledge in many cases , the emulation of foreign wits , and of immortal works , the want and the expectation of such works ...
... striking forms , for ornament and use . Το this every inducement prompted ; the novelty of the acquisition of knowledge in many cases , the emulation of foreign wits , and of immortal works , the want and the expectation of such works ...
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... , they had an immediate striking and picturesque effect , giving scope to the fancy . The surface of society was embossed with hieroglyphics , and poetry existed " in act and complement extern . " The GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT . 19.
... , they had an immediate striking and picturesque effect , giving scope to the fancy . The surface of society was embossed with hieroglyphics , and poetry existed " in act and complement extern . " The GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT . 19.
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... that there were as yet no examples of a more ambiguous and irregu- lar kind to tempt him to err , and as he had not the impulse or resources within himself to strike out a new path , ON LYLY , MARLOWE , HEYWOOD , ETC. 23.
... that there were as yet no examples of a more ambiguous and irregu- lar kind to tempt him to err , and as he had not the impulse or resources within himself to strike out a new path , ON LYLY , MARLOWE , HEYWOOD , ETC. 23.
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Page 24 - Would he were fatter. — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men.
Page 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 114 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 68 - A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. Ay, my lord. ANTONY. That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns; and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Page 105 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star...
Page 163 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 34 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 159 - Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant...
Page 101 - 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.