Latest Literary Essays ; The Old English DramatistsRiverside Press, 1889 - 461 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... sure , of " sacred rages , " but in so decorous a tone that we do not even glance to- wards the tongs . They invoke fire from heaven in such frozen verse as would have set it at de- fiance had their prayer been answered . Cowper was ...
... sure , of " sacred rages , " but in so decorous a tone that we do not even glance to- wards the tongs . They invoke fire from heaven in such frozen verse as would have set it at de- fiance had their prayer been answered . Cowper was ...
Pagina 10
... sure , an unsentimental person might say that the world can get on much better without the finest verses that ever were written than without common sense , and I am willing to admit that the question is a de- batable one , and to ...
... sure , an unsentimental person might say that the world can get on much better without the finest verses that ever were written than without common sense , and I am willing to admit that the question is a de- batable one , and to ...
Pagina 13
... ferment in the spring , as old wine is said to do when the grapes are in blossom . Then we are sure that we are neither dead nor turned to vinegar , and repeat softly to ourselves , in Dryden's delightful paraphrase of GRAY 13.
... ferment in the spring , as old wine is said to do when the grapes are in blossom . Then we are sure that we are neither dead nor turned to vinegar , and repeat softly to ourselves , in Dryden's delightful paraphrase of GRAY 13.
Pagina 14
... sure of , that the private person was of more importance both to himself and others then than now , and that self - consciousness was , accordingly , a vast deal more comfortable be- cause it had less need of conscious self - assertion ...
... sure of , that the private person was of more importance both to himself and others then than now , and that self - consciousness was , accordingly , a vast deal more comfortable be- cause it had less need of conscious self - assertion ...
Pagina 16
... sure to produce a large crop of dilettantism , of delight in art and the things belonging to it as an elegant occupation of the mind without taxing its faculties too severely . If the dilettante in his eagerness to escape ennui ...
... sure to produce a large crop of dilettantism , of delight in art and the things belonging to it as an elegant occupation of the mind without taxing its faculties too severely . If the dilettante in his eagerness to escape ennui ...
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Pagina 182 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Pagina 207 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still 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 combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can...
Pagina 271 - There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Pagina 187 - Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Pagina 211 - 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 222 - 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; I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings...
Pagina 88 - 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 293 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Pagina 312 - 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 42 - 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.