Essays and Reviews, Volum 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861 |
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... speech , when they undertook to represent coarse characters , they rarely , with the exception perhaps of Fletcher , tampered with moral laws . A good , whole- some , English integrity generally underlies their vulgari- ties . Their ...
... speech , when they undertook to represent coarse characters , they rarely , with the exception perhaps of Fletcher , tampered with moral laws . A good , whole- some , English integrity generally underlies their vulgari- ties . Their ...
Pàgina 24
... is nothing which tends to corrupt the morals , as well as to vulgarize the speech . Virtue and vice , honesty and baseness , indulge in no coquetry in his representations . We are acquainted with no 24 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
... is nothing which tends to corrupt the morals , as well as to vulgarize the speech . Virtue and vice , honesty and baseness , indulge in no coquetry in his representations . We are acquainted with no 24 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
Pàgina 34
... speech of England . , Jonson drenched his large and heavy brain freely with stimulants . It was said that every line of his poetry cost him a cup of sack . " He would , " according to Aubrey , " many times exceed in drink ; Canary was ...
... speech of England . , Jonson drenched his large and heavy brain freely with stimulants . It was said that every line of his poetry cost him a cup of sack . " He would , " according to Aubrey , " many times exceed in drink ; Canary was ...
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... Speech , stealing from out his breast , Had wont to rest itself , as loth to post From out so fair an Inn : look , look , they seem To stir , And breathe defiance to black obloquy . " . " Description of the Witch Erictho . " Here in ...
... Speech , stealing from out his breast , Had wont to rest itself , as loth to post From out so fair an Inn : look , look , they seem To stir , And breathe defiance to black obloquy . " . " Description of the Witch Erictho . " Here in ...
Pàgina 59
... speech of Suetonius to his soldiers before battle , in Bonduca , — the lines seem torn from the throat of the speaker : - " The gods of Rome fight for ye ; loud Fame calls ye , Pitched on the topless Apennine , and blows 66 To all the ...
... speech of Suetonius to his soldiers before battle , in Bonduca , — the lines seem torn from the throat of the speaker : - " The gods of Rome fight for ye ; loud Fame calls ye , Pitched on the topless Apennine , and blows 66 To all the ...
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Pàgina 31 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from 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...
Pàgina 124 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be!
Pàgina 35 - I shall raise the despised head of poetry again, and stripping her out of those rotten and base rags wherewith the times have adulterated her form, restore her to her primitive habit, feature, and majesty, and render her worthy to be embraced and kist of all the great and master-spirits of our world.
Pàgina 65 - Or painful to his slumbers: easy, light, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses: sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain. Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide; And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Pàgina 38 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow : The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blowball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Pàgina 331 - ... off a great-coat, his only garment, at the same time swearing a great oath (for which he was rebuked by the passengers), " That he would rather ride in his shirt all his life than suffer a fellow-creature to lie in so miserable a condition.
Pàgina 20 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
Pàgina 365 - And inland rests the green, warm dell ; The brook comes tinkling down its side ; From out the trees the Sabbath bell Rings cheerful, far and wide, Mingling its sound with bleatings of the flocks That feed about the vale among the rocks.
Pàgina 24 - Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pàgina 56 - ... without flattery, the greatest monument of the scene that time and humanity have produced, and must live, not only the crown and sole reputation of our own, but the stain of all other nations and languages...