Biographical and Critical StudiesReeves and Turner and B. Dobell, 1896 - 483 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... heart must have endured in such society . Only his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and his marvellous animal spirits could have sus- tained him . We shall not be surprised to read in his books the most bitter contempt and abhorrence ...
... heart must have endured in such society . Only his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and his marvellous animal spirits could have sus- tained him . We shall not be surprised to read in his books the most bitter contempt and abhorrence ...
Pàgina 19
... heart shudders and trembles within its membrane when I think of the prodigies , so various and horrific , which we saw plainly five or six days before his departure ; so that the lords D'Assier , Chemant , Mailly the one- eyed , Saint ...
... heart shudders and trembles within its membrane when I think of the prodigies , so various and horrific , which we saw plainly five or six days before his departure ; so that the lords D'Assier , Chemant , Mailly the one- eyed , Saint ...
Pàgina 58
... heart , stolen by a beautiful eye , beyond hope of recovery ; and I believe , God not aiding , that at last I shall lose here all my wits . " These are broad general charges , but he has emphasised one of them in another poem . Having ...
... heart , stolen by a beautiful eye , beyond hope of recovery ; and I believe , God not aiding , that at last I shall lose here all my wits . " These are broad general charges , but he has emphasised one of them in another poem . Having ...
Pàgina 101
... heart ) , writes in his excellent and earnest 66 Eglogue on the Death of Ben Jonson " : * — " His learning such , no author old nor new , Escaped his reading that deserved his view , And such his judgment , so exact his test , Of what ...
... heart ) , writes in his excellent and earnest 66 Eglogue on the Death of Ben Jonson " : * — " His learning such , no author old nor new , Escaped his reading that deserved his view , And such his judgment , so exact his test , Of what ...
Pàgina 111
... heart of Scotland , Britain's other eye , ' has always been famous , have forgotten that he was at the table of a prim Scotch laird , and dreaming himself already in the Apollo or at the Mermaid , given vent to each feeling as it rose ...
... heart of Scotland , Britain's other eye , ' has always been famous , have forgotten that he was at the table of a prim Scotch laird , and dreaming himself already in the Apollo or at the Mermaid , given vent to each feeling as it rose ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 257 - and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered."—" But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment." " For verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain
Pàgina 257 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment." " For verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove
Pàgina 287 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.—Die If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek
Pàgina 139 - on the Countess of Pembroke:— " Underneath this sable herse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Pàgina 96 - whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past: wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were
Pàgina 470 - mark, among others, Scott on Burns: "I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. . . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast,
Pàgina 141 - brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too.
Pàgina 287 - fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.—Die If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek
Pàgina 331 - be called poetry by that figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonyme of the cause. But poetry, in a more restricted sense, expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.* '
Pàgina 138 - He played so truly. So, by error, to his fate They all consented ; But, viewing him since, alas, too late ! They have repented; And have sought, to give new birth, In baths to steep him But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Referències a aquest llibre
Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society William S. Peterson Visualització de fragments - 1969 |