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... original , and generally of a very felicitous kind . His learning was very great and very wide ; but he is equally ready to associate his ideas with objects of nature and of daily life . One is reminded of the conceits of Cowley and the ...
... original , and generally of a very felicitous kind . His learning was very great and very wide ; but he is equally ready to associate his ideas with objects of nature and of daily life . One is reminded of the conceits of Cowley and the ...
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... original characters of our comic drama . Indeed this character is so original that it has been utterly misinterpreted 2 , and would probably require to be performed by an actor of genuine humour as well as intelligence to be thoroughly ...
... original characters of our comic drama . Indeed this character is so original that it has been utterly misinterpreted 2 , and would probably require to be performed by an actor of genuine humour as well as intelligence to be thoroughly ...
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... original situations required to be seconded by unusual labour in composition ; and this , strange to say , he seems on the present occasion to have spared . Strozza's speeches - with one notable exception - rise little above a merely ...
... original situations required to be seconded by unusual labour in composition ; and this , strange to say , he seems on the present occasion to have spared . Strozza's speeches - with one notable exception - rise little above a merely ...
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... original , though the name is changed - is there- 1 It was in fact adapted ( by Mrs. Lennox ) under the name of Old City Manners for the Drury Lane stage as late as 1775 , having been revived after the Restoration under a more ...
... original , though the name is changed - is there- 1 It was in fact adapted ( by Mrs. Lennox ) under the name of Old City Manners for the Drury Lane stage as late as 1775 , having been revived after the Restoration under a more ...
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... original ; and his jolting talk , consisting chiefly of an inexhaustible flow of brief sentences , nervous and sudden like the punches of a vigorous awl , is quite sui generis . He lavishes it with perfect impartiality upon high and low ...
... original ; and his jolting talk , consisting chiefly of an inexhaustible flow of brief sentences , nervous and sudden like the punches of a vigorous awl , is quite sui generis . He lavishes it with perfect impartiality upon high and low ...
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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.