Shelburne Essays: With the witsPutnam, 1919 |
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... language of the Histriomastix ( p . 41 ) these plays , which we are criticising so mildly , " had their Alpha , and Omega ; their beginning , and end : their birth , and use from Hell ; being not only invented by the Devill himselfe ...
... language of the Histriomastix ( p . 41 ) these plays , which we are criticising so mildly , " had their Alpha , and Omega ; their beginning , and end : their birth , and use from Hell ; being not only invented by the Devill himselfe ...
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... to belong to the mature Shakespeare ; the preg- nant , allusive , crowded language points , in my judge- ment , more strongly to Chapman than to any other writer of the day . While going through this play 38 WITH THE WITS.
... to belong to the mature Shakespeare ; the preg- nant , allusive , crowded language points , in my judge- ment , more strongly to Chapman than to any other writer of the day . While going through this play 38 WITH THE WITS.
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... language . It would have been some- thing very different from the clever but coarsely conceived history of the pragmatical Bishop Bur- net , of whom , it is said , the Marquis in private always spoke " with the utmost contempt , as a ...
... language . It would have been some- thing very different from the clever but coarsely conceived history of the pragmatical Bishop Bur- net , of whom , it is said , the Marquis in private always spoke " with the utmost contempt , as a ...
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... language of the Characters as to the conscientious labour of their author . But he possesses in com- pensation a certain honesty of his own , and a memorable gravity born of practical experience . What he learned from the business of ...
... language of the Characters as to the conscientious labour of their author . But he possesses in com- pensation a certain honesty of his own , and a memorable gravity born of practical experience . What he learned from the business of ...
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... language of his philosophy in developing this milder and , in a way , diminished ruling passion of unconscious jealousy in place of the franker envy he beheld in the political society about him . As it is , we see the fibres of human ...
... language of his philosophy in developing this milder and , in a way , diminished ruling passion of unconscious jealousy in place of the franker envy he beheld in the political society about him . As it is , we see the fibres of human ...
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Addison Æschylus amusement Aphra Behn Arbuthnot Aubrey Beardsley Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Behn Behn's Berkeley Berkeley's Bernbaum Bolingbroke called character charm comedy Country Wife criticism cynicism death Deism doubt drama dramatists Duke of Wharton Dunciad emotions England English essay Euripides evil feeling fools G. P. Putnam's Sons genius Gray Gray's Halifax heart Hippolytus honour human nature imagination judgement kind King Lady Mary Lady Mary's least letters literary literature live Lord Maid's Tragedy malice mankind ment mind Montagu moral never Oroonoko passion perhaps philosophy play poems poet poetry political Pope Pope's Puritan Queen religion satire scene seemed sense society soul spirit Swift tender thing thou thought tion to-day tragedy true truth Twickenham verse virtue Walpole Whig whole wife woman words Wortley write wrote ye's you's young
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Página 146 - 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, no brother near the throne...
Página 117 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Página 195 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 260 - He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements : and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening.
Página 133 - New distant scenes of endless science rise. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise...
Página 290 - They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.
Página 293 - LAST night ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Página 183 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Página 131 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Página 127 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...