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Pagina 22
... learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers ; but , with reference to Addison in particular , it is time to correct the popular notion of his literary character , or at least ...
... learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers ; but , with reference to Addison in particular , it is time to correct the popular notion of his literary character , or at least ...
Pagina 26
... learned for his rank , but the most absolute and undistinguishing pedant that perhaps literature has to show . He sneers continually at the regular - built academic pedant ; but he himself , though no academic , was essentially the very ...
... learned for his rank , but the most absolute and undistinguishing pedant that perhaps literature has to show . He sneers continually at the regular - built academic pedant ; but he himself , though no academic , was essentially the very ...
Pagina 28
... learned to appreciate Shakspeare , not originally from reading him , but from witnessing the court representa- tions of his plays at Whitehall . Afterwards we know that he made Shakspeare his closet companion , for he was re- proached ...
... learned to appreciate Shakspeare , not originally from reading him , but from witnessing the court representa- tions of his plays at Whitehall . Afterwards we know that he made Shakspeare his closet companion , for he was re- proached ...
Pagina 29
... M . 2 " Then to the well - trod stage anon , If Jonson's learned sock be on , Or sweetest Shakespeare , fancy's child , Warble his native woodnotes wild . " - M . the first argument , let it be remembered that , SHAKSPEARE 29.
... M . 2 " Then to the well - trod stage anon , If Jonson's learned sock be on , Or sweetest Shakespeare , fancy's child , Warble his native woodnotes wild . " - M . the first argument , let it be remembered that , SHAKSPEARE 29.
Pagina 34
... learned research might roam in security from house to house , gleaning those personal remembrances which , even in the fury of civil strife , might long have lingered by the chimney corner . But the fierce furnace of war had probably ...
... learned research might roam in security from house to house , gleaning those personal remembrances which , even in the fury of civil strife , might long have lingered by the chimney corner . But the fierce furnace of war had probably ...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4 Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Volledige weergave - 1897 |
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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.