Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and ArtHenry S. King & Company, 1875 - 430 pages |
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... each to the other , and forms the one vital soul that lies behind this manifold creation - to achieve this is something rarer and more difficult . But there is a yet higher ascension possible . These vast 4 Shakspere - His Mind and Art .
... each to the other , and forms the one vital soul that lies behind this manifold creation - to achieve this is something rarer and more difficult . But there is a yet higher ascension possible . These vast 4 Shakspere - His Mind and Art .
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... Soul of the Age . " Soul of the Age . " Shakspere was for - all time by virtue of certain powers and perceptions , but he also belonged especially to an age , his own age , the age of Spenser , Raleigh , Jonson , Bacon , Burleigh ...
... Soul of the Age . " Soul of the Age . " Shakspere was for - all time by virtue of certain powers and perceptions , but he also belonged especially to an age , his own age , the age of Spenser , Raleigh , Jonson , Bacon , Burleigh ...
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... soul . One's country was for the present not the heavenly Jerusalem , but a certain defined portion of this habitable globe ; and patriotism became a virtue , and queen- worship a piece of religion . Conscience was a faithful witness ...
... soul . One's country was for the present not the heavenly Jerusalem , but a certain defined portion of this habitable globe ; and patriotism became a virtue , and queen- worship a piece of religion . Conscience was a faithful witness ...
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... soul of man may escape from earth to heaven . Nor is the quest of a mystical Grail a central point in this epic of Arthur . The general end of Spenser's poem is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline ...
... soul of man may escape from earth to heaven . Nor is the quest of a mystical Grail a central point in this epic of Arthur . The general end of Spenser's poem is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline ...
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... soul we should find little resemblance between them . While Bacon's sense of the presence of physical law in the universe was for his time extraordinarily developed , he seems practically to have acted upon the theory that the moral ...
... soul we should find little resemblance between them . While Bacon's sense of the presence of physical law in the universe was for his time extraordinarily developed , he seems practically to have acted upon the theory that the moral ...
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Page 270 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 174 - And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 211 - I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.
Page 367 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 209 - Fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! [0, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing .his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die...
Page 77 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Page 136 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 217 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 400 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 43 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.