Essays and Reviews, Volume 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861 |
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... present century , none was entitled to speak with more authority of the Old English Dramatists than Charles Lamb . His letters and essays show that his choicest hours were spent in their company . Their scenes and characters did not ...
... present century , none was entitled to speak with more authority of the Old English Dramatists than Charles Lamb . His letters and essays show that his choicest hours were spent in their company . Their scenes and characters did not ...
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... present at the wit contests at the Mermaid , and as feeling the " words of subtile flame " which flashed from the lips of Shakspeare , Jonson , and Fletcher . From his realization of them as persons , he was less likely to ex- aggerate ...
... present at the wit contests at the Mermaid , and as feeling the " words of subtile flame " which flashed from the lips of Shakspeare , Jonson , and Fletcher . From his realization of them as persons , he was less likely to ex- aggerate ...
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... present existence . We speak of Shakspeare's mind , but Jonson starts up always in bodily proportions . He seems some boon companion , whom we have seen in a preëxistent state . Shakspeare's creations , from Hamlet . to Falstaff , are ...
... present existence . We speak of Shakspeare's mind , but Jonson starts up always in bodily proportions . He seems some boon companion , whom we have seen in a preëxistent state . Shakspeare's creations , from Hamlet . to Falstaff , are ...
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... present fears are less than " horrible imaginings . " With this sombre and unearthly hue tinging his mind , he is still not deficient in touches of simple nature , wrought out with exquisite art and knowledge , and producing effects the ...
... present fears are less than " horrible imaginings . " With this sombre and unearthly hue tinging his mind , he is still not deficient in touches of simple nature , wrought out with exquisite art and knowledge , and producing effects the ...
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... present favored age . They fought for an equality in evil as well as good . They poured out their blood , that the people might have perdition and death at low prices . They fought against monopolies in stupidity , blasphemy ...
... present favored age . They fought for an equality in evil as well as good . They poured out their blood , that the people might have perdition and death at low prices . They fought against monopolies in stupidity , blasphemy ...
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Page 31 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 124 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be!
Page 35 - I shall raise the despised head of poetry again, and stripping her out of those rotten and base rags wherewith the times have adulterated her form, restore her to her primitive habit, feature, and majesty, and render her worthy to be embraced and kist of all the great and master-spirits of our world.
Page 65 - Or painful to his slumbers: easy, light, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses: sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain. Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide; And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Page 38 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow : The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blowball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Page 331 - ... off a great-coat, his only garment, at the same time swearing a great oath (for which he was rebuked by the passengers), " That he would rather ride in his shirt all his life than suffer a fellow-creature to lie in so miserable a condition.
Page 20 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
Page 365 - And inland rests the green, warm dell ; The brook comes tinkling down its side ; From out the trees the Sabbath bell Rings cheerful, far and wide, Mingling its sound with bleatings of the flocks That feed about the vale among the rocks.
Page 24 - Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 56 - ... without flattery, the greatest monument of the scene that time and humanity have produced, and must live, not only the crown and sole reputation of our own, but the stain of all other nations and languages...