Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionJ. Warren, 1821 - 356 páginas |
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... sound ones , before our time . They had the same capacities that we have , sometimes greater motives for their exertion , and , for the most part , the same subject - matter to work upon . What we learn from nature , we may hope to do ...
... sound ones , before our time . They had the same capacities that we have , sometimes greater motives for their exertion , and , for the most part , the same subject - matter to work upon . What we learn from nature , we may hope to do ...
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... sound criticism . They were esteemed , and they de- served to be so . One cause that might be pointed out here , as having contributed to the long - continued neglect of our earlier writers , lies in the very nature 10 GENERAL VIEW OF ...
... sound criticism . They were esteemed , and they de- served to be so . One cause that might be pointed out here , as having contributed to the long - continued neglect of our earlier writers , lies in the very nature 10 GENERAL VIEW OF ...
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... sound of civil combat might still be heard in the distance , the spear glittered to the eye of memory , or the clashing of armour struck on the imagination of the ardent and the young . They were borderers on the savage state , on the ...
... sound of civil combat might still be heard in the distance , the spear glittered to the eye of memory , or the clashing of armour struck on the imagination of the ardent and the young . They were borderers on the savage state , on the ...
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... sound hearts among us . Thrown on one side of the world , and left to bustle for ourselves , we have fought out many a battle for truth and freedom . That is our na- tural style ; and it were to be wished we had in no instance departed ...
... sound hearts among us . Thrown on one side of the world , and left to bustle for ourselves , we have fought out many a battle for truth and freedom . That is our na- tural style ; and it were to be wished we had in no instance departed ...
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... sound- ing phrases , climbing to the height of Seneca his style , and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach , and thereby obtain the very end of poetry . " And Mr. Pope , whose taste in such matters was ...
... sound- ing phrases , climbing to the height of Seneca his style , and as full of notable morality ; which it doth most delightfully teach , and thereby obtain the very end of poetry . " And Mr. Pope , whose taste in such matters was ...
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Página 29 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Página 225 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Página 225 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Página 299 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Página 312 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head...
Página 226 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Página 291 - Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth.
Página 55 - At cards for kisses — Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me? THE SONGS OF BIRDS What bird so sings, yet...
Página 253 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Página 59 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.