The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4A. and C. Black, 1890 |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 6-10 van 24
Pagina 75
... c . But Cleopatra , equally fine , is a pure creation of art : the situation and the scenic circumstances belong to history , but the character belongs to Shakspeare . In the great world , therefore , of woman , SHAKSPEARE 75.
... c . But Cleopatra , equally fine , is a pure creation of art : the situation and the scenic circumstances belong to history , but the character belongs to Shakspeare . In the great world , therefore , of woman , SHAKSPEARE 75.
Pagina 181
... equally sound , have the unfailing Bentleian merit of extra- ordinary ingenuity . Let a what slender causes are suspended the mightiest of destinies . particular current from the far south - west alter its direction , and the climate of ...
... equally sound , have the unfailing Bentleian merit of extra- ordinary ingenuity . Let a what slender causes are suspended the mightiest of destinies . particular current from the far south - west alter its direction , and the climate of ...
Pagina 220
... equally ludicrous and convincing . Throughout the letters , Phalaris sports a most royal munifi- cence , and gives away talents with as much fluency as if they had been sixpences . Now , the jest of the matter is that Sicilian talents ...
... equally ludicrous and convincing . Throughout the letters , Phalaris sports a most royal munifi- cence , and gives away talents with as much fluency as if they had been sixpences . Now , the jest of the matter is that Sicilian talents ...
Pagina 227
... equally keen sense of the ludicrous in most of the emendations introduced by Bentley into the text of the ancient classics ; a sense which , in these instances , is blunted or extinguished to us by our unfamiliar command over the two ...
... equally keen sense of the ludicrous in most of the emendations introduced by Bentley into the text of the ancient classics ; a sense which , in these instances , is blunted or extinguished to us by our unfamiliar command over the two ...
Pagina 246
... equally sur- prising and offensive to his noble correspondent . of Buckingham1 had addressed to Pope a letter containing some account of the controversy about Homer which had then been recently carried on in France between La Motte and ...
... equally sur- prising and offensive to his noble correspondent . of Buckingham1 had addressed to Pope a letter containing some account of the controversy about Homer which had then been recently carried on in France between La Motte and ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4 Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Volledige weergave - 1897 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration afterwards amongst Archonides Attic dialect beauty Bentley Bentley's biographers Bishop Bishop of Ely Bishop Stillingfleet Boyle called Callimachus century character chiefly Colbatch connexion court critical death Dunciad edition effect eminent English expression fact father favour feeling final Frankfort friends German Goethe Goldsmith Grasmere Grecian Greek happened Herder honour human Iliad impression instance intellectual interest Johnson Kant Kant's Königsberg labours language Lasswade Latin learned letter literary literature London Lord Meantime memory Milton mind Monk nature never notice occasion original Paradise Lost particular party passage perhaps period person Phalaris philosophic poet Pope Pope's published Pythagoras question Quincey Quincey's rank reader reason regard Richard Bentley Schiller scholar seems sense Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's speak spirit supposed Susarion Thespis thought tion Trinity College true whilst whole word writing young Zancle Zancleans
Populaire passages
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.