The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4A. and C. Black, 1890 - 439 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... lived long enough to know that this nephew , the troublesome boy of former days , had come to be recognised by the world as a man of rare genius and a great English writer , of whom any uncle might be proud . How long he remained in ...
... lived long enough to know that this nephew , the troublesome boy of former days , had come to be recognised by the world as a man of rare genius and a great English writer , of whom any uncle might be proud . How long he remained in ...
Pagina 20
... lived in the metropolis , have yielded much more than such an outline of his history as is oftentimes to be gathered from the penurious records of a grave - stone . That he lived , and that he died , and that he was " a little lower ...
... lived in the metropolis , have yielded much more than such an outline of his history as is oftentimes to be gathered from the penurious records of a grave - stone . That he lived , and that he died , and that he was " a little lower ...
Pagina 29
... lived out the seventeenth century . And we have now arrived within nine years of the era when the critical editions started in hot succession to one another . The names we have mentioned were the great influential names of the century ...
... lived out the seventeenth century . And we have now arrived within nine years of the era when the critical editions started in hot succession to one another . The names we have mentioned were the great influential names of the century ...
Pagina 38
... lived in careless plenty , and saw nothing in his father's house but that style of liberal house- keeping which has ever distinguished the upper yeomanry and the rural gentry of England . Probable enough it is that the resources for ...
... lived in careless plenty , and saw nothing in his father's house but that style of liberal house- keeping which has ever distinguished the upper yeomanry and the rural gentry of England . Probable enough it is that the resources for ...
Pagina 68
... lived at Stratford , and supplied the stage with two plays every year ; and for itt had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of 1000l . a - year , as I have heard . Shakespeare , Drayton , and Ben Jonson , had a merie meeting ...
... lived at Stratford , and supplied the stage with two plays every year ; and for itt had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of 1000l . a - year , as I have heard . Shakespeare , Drayton , and Ben Jonson , had a merie meeting ...
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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.