Retrospective Review, Volume 8Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1823 |
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... chief person- ages and characters are of royal or noble descent . That the heroic epic requires , not only a chief hero , but a coincidence of all the episodic narratives with the main action of the poem , so long as the poem conforms ...
... chief person- ages and characters are of royal or noble descent . That the heroic epic requires , not only a chief hero , but a coincidence of all the episodic narratives with the main action of the poem , so long as the poem conforms ...
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... chief hero of the poem now under our consi- deration , will not listen to the counsels of his dear Bradamant , until he first fulfils his vow to Agramant , from whom he first received the honour of knighthood . With regard to the sub ...
... chief hero of the poem now under our consi- deration , will not listen to the counsels of his dear Bradamant , until he first fulfils his vow to Agramant , from whom he first received the honour of knighthood . With regard to the sub ...
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... chief hero , a hero without whom they imagine epic poetry cannot exist , and condemn his want of unity of design and eternal digressions . His transitions , they say , are too abrupt , and destroy all continuity of action . They cannot ...
... chief hero , a hero without whom they imagine epic poetry cannot exist , and condemn his want of unity of design and eternal digressions . His transitions , they say , are too abrupt , and destroy all continuity of action . They cannot ...
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... heroic , a chief hero and a main action , to which the poet must render all his other heroes and incidental actions subservient , but the materials he makes use of are not the same . " The ground - work of the Orlando , " he says , " is ...
... heroic , a chief hero and a main action , to which the poet must render all his other heroes and incidental actions subservient , but the materials he makes use of are not the same . " The ground - work of the Orlando , " he says , " is ...
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... chief hero of the poem , and that his marriage with Bradamant is the final object of the poem ; for , if so , why give it the name of Orlando ? Why interest us more in his fate than in that of Rogero ? Why endow him with that surpassing ...
... chief hero of the poem , and that his marriage with Bradamant is the final object of the poem ; for , if so , why give it the name of Orlando ? Why interest us more in his fate than in that of Rogero ? Why endow him with that surpassing ...
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Page 247 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 312 - THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think Should have but little need of drink) Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. The busy Sun (and one would guess...
Page 56 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 37 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 36 - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Page 247 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Page 39 - Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away. But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
Page 37 - I WONDER, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den? . . 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which...
Page 36 - Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of the earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove 15 Those things which elemented it.
Page 237 - Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail ; And yet were well, and yet we were not well And what was our disease we could not tell. Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look : And thus In that first garden of our simpleness We spent our childhood : But when years began To reap the fruit of knowledge : ah, how then Would she with graver looks, with sweet stern brow, Check my presumption and my forwardness ; Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show What she would have me, yet not have...