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Pagina 5
... writer , of whom any uncle might be proud . How long he remained in India the information at hand does not enable us to say ; but he did return , and spent his last days in his native land . He died on the 27th of June 1835 , and was ...
... writer , of whom any uncle might be proud . How long he remained in India the information at hand does not enable us to say ; but he did return , and spent his last days in his native land . He died on the 27th of June 1835 , and was ...
Pagina 6
... writing in lodgings , and trying whether London might not be the best permanent residence for himself and his family . Baffled in that experiment after all his exertions , he is again at Grasmere in 1825 , and in a state of the utmost ...
... writing in lodgings , and trying whether London might not be the best permanent residence for himself and his family . Baffled in that experiment after all his exertions , he is again at Grasmere in 1825 , and in a state of the utmost ...
Pagina 19
... writer so meagre and so few , and amongst 1 But , as a proof that , even in the case of royal christenings , it was not thought pious to " tempt God , " as it were , by delay : -Edward VI , the only son of Henry VIII , was born on the ...
... writer so meagre and so few , and amongst 1 But , as a proof that , even in the case of royal christenings , it was not thought pious to " tempt God , " as it were , by delay : -Edward VI , the only son of Henry VIII , was born on the ...
Pagina 21
... writer reaffirms and clenches the judgment he has quoted by saying , " His admirers , however , if he had admirers in that age , possessed no portion of such enthusiasm . ” It may perhaps be an instructive lesson to young readers if we ...
... writer reaffirms and clenches the judgment he has quoted by saying , " His admirers , however , if he had admirers in that age , possessed no portion of such enthusiasm . ” It may perhaps be an instructive lesson to young readers if we ...
Pagina 22
... writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . ) , would be likely to have 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 ...
... writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . ) , would be likely to have 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 ...
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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.