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... noticed , vol . i . p . 565. It has been supposed , I believe , that Shakspere in his LXXXth Sonnet refers to Chapman . See the well - known passage in the address To the Reader prefixed to Vittoria Corombona . 5 His personal and cha ...
... noticed , vol . i . p . 565. It has been supposed , I believe , that Shakspere in his LXXXth Sonnet refers to Chapman . See the well - known passage in the address To the Reader prefixed to Vittoria Corombona . 5 His personal and cha ...
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... ( act i ) on the respect due to the Stage , when pursuing its true ends , should be noticed , though , as Clermont's interlocutor observes , it be only a ' virtuous digression . ' II The Con- spiracy and The Tra- gedy of Byron (
... ( act i ) on the respect due to the Stage , when pursuing its true ends , should be noticed , though , as Clermont's interlocutor observes , it be only a ' virtuous digression . ' II The Con- spiracy and The Tra- gedy of Byron (
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Sir Adolphus William Ward. CAESAR AND POMPEY . 15 phors of the kind already noticed in Bussy d'Ambois again abound . But these ornaments are here less remarkable for poetic power and grace , and exhibit , it must be allowed , too much of ...
Sir Adolphus William Ward. CAESAR AND POMPEY . 15 phors of the kind already noticed in Bussy d'Ambois again abound . But these ornaments are here less remarkable for poetic power and grace , and exhibit , it must be allowed , too much of ...
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... phrases from Hamlet , Marston's Antonio and Mellida , and Marlowe's Dido , with a bombastic line from which the comedy closes , may be noticed . CHAPMAN'S MASK . The character of the feeble Spartan suitor 28 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
... phrases from Hamlet , Marston's Antonio and Mellida , and Marlowe's Dido , with a bombastic line from which the comedy closes , may be noticed . CHAPMAN'S MASK . The character of the feeble Spartan suitor 28 THE LATER ELISABETHANS .
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... noticed among Shirley's plays , while as to the former most readers will be inclined to follow Dyce in concluding ' nearly the whole ' —or at least the body- of it to be from Chapman's pen . The tragedy of Chabot , Admiral of France ...
... noticed among Shirley's plays , while as to the former most readers will be inclined to follow Dyce in concluding ' nearly the whole ' —or at least the body- of it to be from Chapman's pen . The tragedy of Chabot , Admiral of France ...
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Page 230 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 527 - O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
Page 204 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Page 78 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 77 - Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.