The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish ; but where it shroudeth itself in the heart of his subject , uttered with fitness of figure and expressive epithets , with that dark- ness will I still labour to be ...
... affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish ; but where it shroudeth itself in the heart of his subject , uttered with fitness of figure and expressive epithets , with that dark- ness will I still labour to be ...
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... affections should invade Two perfect lovers . " And this couplet has an exquisite touch of fanciful colour : " As two clear tapers mix in one their light , So did the lily and the hand their white . " That at least might have been ...
... affections should invade Two perfect lovers . " And this couplet has an exquisite touch of fanciful colour : " As two clear tapers mix in one their light , So did the lily and the hand their white . " That at least might have been ...
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... affections to most beautiful judgment . How then may a man stay his marvailing to see passion - driven men , reading but to curtail a tedious hour , and altogether hidebound with affection to great men's fancies , take upon them as ...
... affections to most beautiful judgment . How then may a man stay his marvailing to see passion - driven men , reading but to curtail a tedious hour , and altogether hidebound with affection to great men's fancies , take upon them as ...
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... affections with a beast ; The shape wherewith he should be now endued Must bear no sign of man's similitude . Therefore * Promethean poets with the coals Of their most genial , more - than - human souls In living verse , created men ...
... affections with a beast ; The shape wherewith he should be now endued Must bear no sign of man's similitude . Therefore * Promethean poets with the coals Of their most genial , more - than - human souls In living verse , created men ...
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... affection . And Euthimya is her sacred name , Since she the cares and toils of earth must tame : Then straight the flowers , the shadows and the mists ( Fit matter for most pliant humourists ) , She hunters makes and of that substance ...
... affection . And Euthimya is her sacred name , Since she the cares and toils of earth must tame : Then straight the flowers , the shadows and the mists ( Fit matter for most pliant humourists ) , She hunters makes and of that substance ...
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Page 57 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by Fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice. What we behold is censured by our eyes.