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Pagina 7
... instance , why should it not produce and support a literary school of its own , that should rival that of the Lakists ? " But the misery is the almost total want of " colonists ! Would you come hither and be King over us , " then indeed ...
... instance , why should it not produce and support a literary school of its own , that should rival that of the Lakists ? " But the misery is the almost total want of " colonists ! Would you come hither and be King over us , " then indeed ...
Pagina 24
... instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as Steevens most disingenuously pretends , to be taken as an exponent of the public feeling towards Shakspeare ? Was Addison's neglect representative of a general ...
... instance quoted or made any reference to Shakspeare . But was this , as Steevens most disingenuously pretends , to be taken as an exponent of the public feeling towards Shakspeare ? Was Addison's neglect representative of a general ...
Pagina 58
... instance brought into a sort of epigrammatic antithesis with the humility of his for- tunes ; secondly , under a baser impulse , the malicious plea- sure of seeing a great man degraded . Accordingly , as in the case of Milton , 1 it has ...
... instance brought into a sort of epigrammatic antithesis with the humility of his for- tunes ; secondly , under a baser impulse , the malicious plea- sure of seeing a great man degraded . Accordingly , as in the case of Milton , 1 it has ...
Pagina 61
... instance of malignity . Power , in their minds , is best illus- trated by malice or by the infliction of pain . To this un- welcome fact we have some evidence in the wretched tale which we have just dismissed ; and there is another of ...
... instance of malignity . Power , in their minds , is best illus- trated by malice or by the infliction of pain . To this un- welcome fact we have some evidence in the wretched tale which we have just dismissed ; and there is another of ...
Pagina 70
... instance , -a single instance , indeed one which in itself is a world of new revelation , the possible beauty of the female character had not been seen as in a dream before Shakspeare called into perfect life the radiant shapes of ...
... instance , -a single instance , indeed one which in itself is a world of new revelation , the possible beauty of the female character had not been seen as in a dream before Shakspeare called into perfect life the radiant shapes of ...
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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 71 - Antigones, &c., of the antique put forward but one single trait of character, like the aloe with its single blossom : this solitary feature is presented to us as an abstraction, and as an insulated quality ; whereas in Shakspeare all is presented in the concrete; that is to say, not brought forward in relief, as by some effort of an anatomical artist, but embodied and imbedded, so to speak, as by the force of a creative nature, in the complex system of a human life ; a life in which all the elements...
Pagina 261 - 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 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 152 - 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 278 - 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 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James!
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 365 - ... 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.