History of English Literature, Volume 2Holt & Williams, 1871 |
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... verse - Flowery diction - Pedantic tirades— Want of agreement between the classical style and romantic events- How Dryden borrows and mars the inventions of Shakspeare and Milton -Why this drama fell to the ground . V. Merits of this ...
... verse - Flowery diction - Pedantic tirades— Want of agreement between the classical style and romantic events- How Dryden borrows and mars the inventions of Shakspeare and Milton -Why this drama fell to the ground . V. Merits of this ...
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... verse . For these gentlemen we must now write , and especially for reasonable men ; ' for it is not enough to have wit or to love tragedy , in order to be a good critic : we must possess a solid knowledge and a lofty reason , know ...
... verse . For these gentlemen we must now write , and especially for reasonable men ; ' for it is not enough to have wit or to love tragedy , in order to be a good critic : we must possess a solid knowledge and a lofty reason , know ...
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... verses are to me the coldest I have ever read , . . . their speeches being so many declamations . When the French stage came to be re- formed by Cardinal Richelieu , those long harangues were introduced , to comply with the gravity of a ...
... verses are to me the coldest I have ever read , . . . their speeches being so many declamations . When the French stage came to be re- formed by Cardinal Richelieu , those long harangues were introduced , to comply with the gravity of a ...
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... verse and forced sentiments , the observance of a few rules imported from Paris , —such was the natural food of their vanity and folly , and such the theatre of the English Restoration . I take one of these tragedies , very celebrated ...
... verse and forced sentiments , the observance of a few rules imported from Paris , —such was the natural food of their vanity and folly , and such the theatre of the English Restoration . I take one of these tragedies , very celebrated ...
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... verse , which is without rhyme , and the mixture of prose and verse common to the old authors , for a rhymed tragedy like the French , fancying that he is thus inventing a new species , which he calls heroic play . But in this trans ...
... verse , which is without rhyme , and the mixture of prose and verse common to the old authors , for a rhymed tragedy like the French , fancying that he is thus inventing a new species , which he calls heroic play . But in this trans ...
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Page 246 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 189 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Page 211 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
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Page 523 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 528 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 361 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Page 523 - What is this? his eyes are heavy; think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him, it is thy duty; kiss him, take his hand in thine. It may be my lord is weary, that his brain is overwrought; Soothe him with thy finer fancies, touch him with thy lighter thought. He will answer to the purpose, easy things to understand — Better thou wert dead before me, tho
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