Latest literary essays and addresses. 1892. [v. 12] The old English dramatists [c1892Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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Pagina 12
... genius ; Pope , whose vivid genius almost persuaded wit to renounce its proper nature and become poetry ; Thomson , who sought inspiration in nature , though in her least imaginative side ; 1 Fielding , still in some respects our ...
... genius ; Pope , whose vivid genius almost persuaded wit to renounce its proper nature and become poetry ; Thomson , who sought inspiration in nature , though in her least imaginative side ; 1 Fielding , still in some respects our ...
Pagina 13
... genius and dilettanteism united in the same person ( as for a time they were in Goethe ) , for genius implies always a certain fanaticism of temperament , which , if sometimes it seem fitful , is yet capable of intense energy on ...
... genius and dilettanteism united in the same person ( as for a time they were in Goethe ) , for genius implies always a certain fanaticism of temperament , which , if sometimes it seem fitful , is yet capable of intense energy on ...
Pagina 21
... genius of Gray was so extinguished in the gloomy residence of Cambridge that the recollection of his poems was hateful to him . me to speak to him about them . of his verses to him , he held his child . I said to him sometimes , Will ...
... genius of Gray was so extinguished in the gloomy residence of Cambridge that the recollection of his poems was hateful to him . me to speak to him about them . of his verses to him , he held his child . I said to him sometimes , Will ...
Pagina 24
... genius ( more than common ) is required to teach a man how to employ himself . " And else- where : " to be employed is to be happy , " which was a saying he borrowed of Swift , another self- dissatisfied man . Bonstetten says in French ...
... genius ( more than common ) is required to teach a man how to employ himself . " And else- where : " to be employed is to be happy , " which was a saying he borrowed of Swift , another self- dissatisfied man . Bonstetten says in French ...
Pagina 27
... pleased . Nature and sorrow and tenderness are the true genius of such things ; and something of these I find in several parts of it ( not in the orange tree ) ; poetical ornaments are foreign to the purpose , for they GRAY 27.
... pleased . Nature and sorrow and tenderness are the true genius of such things ; and something of these I find in several parts of it ( not in the orange tree ) ; poetical ornaments are foreign to the purpose , for they GRAY 27.
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Pagina 36 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine: And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Pagina 37 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Pagina 225 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Pagina 221 - From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Pagina 73 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Pagina 315 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Pagina 41 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Pagina 152 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Pagina 228 - I'll look on them, Here, here! [Gives the crown.] Now, sweet God of Heaven, Make me despise this transitory pomp, And sit for aye enthronized in Heaven! Come, death, and with thy fingers close my eyes, Or if I live, let me forget myself.
Pagina 223 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.