A Cabinet of CharactersGwendolen Murphy H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925 - 437 pages The character sketch as a literary form, with examples selected mainly from English literature. |
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1817 LIBRARIES A. B. GROSART admirable affection alwayes Ben Jonson better body braine Brownist Cassander character-sketch characters Cloaths COFFEE-HOUSE conceit Country Court Cynthia's Revels dares dayes discourse doth drinke edition Epigrams essay fall Fantasticks farre fashion feare fooles Gentleman give goes hand happy heare Heaven hee ha's hee hath hee's heere himselfe honest honour horse humour Jaylor keep labour Ladies lives London looks Master meere merry MICHIGAN mind mouth musicke nature never NICHOLAS BRETON play Plutocrat poore Prison Puritan Richard Brathwaite RICHARD FLECKNOE satire Scholler seldome selfe shee shew sketches Sophronius soule speake spirit stand style Sunne talk Tatler tell thee Theophrastus things Thomas Fuller thou thought tion true turn ULPIAN FULWEL UNIV unto walk weares words writes
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Page 389 - W'ho, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page 389 - It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright; Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn ; Abides by this resolve, and stops not there, But makes his moral being his prime care ; Who, doomed to. go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity...
Page 389 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Page x - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Page 390 - Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won. Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray...
Page 271 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Page 390 - In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw ; Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need : He who though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes ; Sweet images ! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart ; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve ; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Page 390 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 103 - She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night, and fears no manner of ill, because she means none: yet to say truth, she is never alone, for she is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts and prayers, but short ones: yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations.
Page 6 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...