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... respect- able ancestry to look back to ; and though he wrote several plays , and did not dis- dain to work in conjunction with such a professional playwright as Dekker , he was nervously anxious lest it should be . supposed that he made ...
... respect- able ancestry to look back to ; and though he wrote several plays , and did not dis- dain to work in conjunction with such a professional playwright as Dekker , he was nervously anxious lest it should be . supposed that he made ...
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... respect has a sort of moral incoherency , which appears to me , indeed , not an infrequent defect in the composi- tions of these great dramatic pre - Shake- The spearites . KEMBLE , FRANCES ANN , 1878 , Records of a Girlhood , p . 255 ...
... respect has a sort of moral incoherency , which appears to me , indeed , not an infrequent defect in the composi- tions of these great dramatic pre - Shake- The spearites . KEMBLE , FRANCES ANN , 1878 , Records of a Girlhood , p . 255 ...
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... respect he was truly a poet - his conceptions of character were ideal ; but his diction , though full of dig- nity and never commonplace , lacks the charm of the inspired and inspiring word , the relief of the picturesque image that ...
... respect he was truly a poet - his conceptions of character were ideal ; but his diction , though full of dig- nity and never commonplace , lacks the charm of the inspired and inspiring word , the relief of the picturesque image that ...
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... respect ; but we cannot be blind to the defect which keeps his work below the level of his greatest contemporaries . It is , in one word , a want of vital force . - STEPHEN , LESLIE , 1874-79 , Hours in a Library , vol . II , pp . 153 ...
... respect ; but we cannot be blind to the defect which keeps his work below the level of his greatest contemporaries . It is , in one word , a want of vital force . - STEPHEN , LESLIE , 1874-79 , Hours in a Library , vol . II , pp . 153 ...
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... respect the activity of this remarkable man , however warmly we may acknowledge the power of his invention , the skill and energy with which he composed , and however agree- able his plays may appear to us if we com- pare them with what ...
... respect the activity of this remarkable man , however warmly we may acknowledge the power of his invention , the skill and energy with which he composed , and however agree- able his plays may appear to us if we com- pare them with what ...
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Page 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Page 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Page 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Page 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Page 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Page 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.