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... mind , and the poet was compelled to concede them a prominence on the scene in some degree commensurate with their prominence in the narrative . Scarcely one of Shakspeare's tragic characters was conceived by himself ; a singular fact ...
... mind , and the poet was compelled to concede them a prominence on the scene in some degree commensurate with their prominence in the narrative . Scarcely one of Shakspeare's tragic characters was conceived by himself ; a singular fact ...
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... mind to the topic immediately before him , he never shrunk from the expression of his boldest thoughts . Sublimity is Marlow's perpetual aim , and to his over strenu- ous efforts for its attainment , and his indistinct notions of the ...
... mind to the topic immediately before him , he never shrunk from the expression of his boldest thoughts . Sublimity is Marlow's perpetual aim , and to his over strenu- ous efforts for its attainment , and his indistinct notions of the ...
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... mind , and guiltless of participation in the murder of his sovereign . The delicacy of the compliment , and the skill of its execution , well merited the reward it is said to have earned , a letter from the monarch penned with his own ...
... mind , and guiltless of participation in the murder of his sovereign . The delicacy of the compliment , and the skill of its execution , well merited the reward it is said to have earned , a letter from the monarch penned with his own ...
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... mind . But how stands the fact ? In Shakspeare's long career of authorship , the brightest period is indisputably that which commences with the composition of Hamlet in 1600 , and closes with Macbeth in 1606 : it was between those that ...
... mind . But how stands the fact ? In Shakspeare's long career of authorship , the brightest period is indisputably that which commences with the composition of Hamlet in 1600 , and closes with Macbeth in 1606 : it was between those that ...
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... mind . Many years afterwards , he , with warmth , exclaimed , " I loved the man , and do honour his memory , on this side idolatry , as much as any . " Yet with these and other literary as- sociates , in an age of free and generous ...
... mind . Many years afterwards , he , with warmth , exclaimed , " I loved the man , and do honour his memory , on this side idolatry , as much as any . " Yet with these and other literary as- sociates , in an age of free and generous ...
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Page 193 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night', Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 159 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 65 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 234 - In her days, every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants ; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Page 260 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Page 269 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 254 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 156 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down ; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Page 73 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 153 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world...