The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4A. and C. Black, 1890 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... fact of his mother's extreme longevity throws light on several matters in his biography . We note it here as explaining why it was that his confidences respecting his mother were not published till 1853 and 1856. He had reserved them ...
... fact of his mother's extreme longevity throws light on several matters in his biography . We note it here as explaining why it was that his confidences respecting his mother were not published till 1853 and 1856. He had reserved them ...
Pagina 19
... fact with what we now call the 3d of May , so that , whether the child was to be carried abroad , or the clergyman to be summoned , no hindrance would arise from the weather . One only argu- ment has sometimes struck us for supposing ...
... fact with what we now call the 3d of May , so that , whether the child was to be carried abroad , or the clergyman to be summoned , no hindrance would arise from the weather . One only argu- ment has sometimes struck us for supposing ...
Pagina 24
... fact that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as Steevens ... facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to ...
... fact that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as Steevens ... facts staring him in the face , how shameless must be that critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to ...
Pagina 26
... fact of his noticing him at all proves his enormous popularity ; for upon system he noticed those only who ruled the public taste . The insipidity of his objections to Shakspeare may be judged from this , that he comments in a spirit of ...
... fact of his noticing him at all proves his enormous popularity ; for upon system he noticed those only who ruled the public taste . The insipidity of his objections to Shakspeare may be judged from this , that he comments in a spirit of ...
Pagina 33
... fact . First of all , the very mansion founded by Shakspeare became the military head - quarters for the Queen in 1644 , when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the VOL . IV D King in Oxford1 ; and one such special ...
... fact . First of all , the very mansion founded by Shakspeare became the military head - quarters for the Queen in 1644 , when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the VOL . IV D King in Oxford1 ; and one such special ...
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Pagina 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Pagina 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Pagina 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Pagina 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Pagina 98 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Pagina 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Pagina 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Pagina 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.