The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xii
... bring to perfection the qualities of crabbed turgidity and barbarous bombast with which nature had but too richly endowed him , mingling these among many better gifts with so cunning a hand and so malignant a liberality as wellnigh to ...
... bring to perfection the qualities of crabbed turgidity and barbarous bombast with which nature had but too richly endowed him , mingling these among many better gifts with so cunning a hand and so malignant a liberality as wellnigh to ...
Page xvi
... bring to bear upon one point at once all the rays of his thought in one focus . Apart from his gift of moral imagination , Mr. Browning has in the supreme degree the qualities of a great debater or an eminent leading counsel ; his ...
... bring to bear upon one point at once all the rays of his thought in one focus . Apart from his gift of moral imagination , Mr. Browning has in the supreme degree the qualities of a great debater or an eminent leading counsel ; his ...
Page xix
... brings to bear upon its central object by way of direct and vivid illustration every symbol and every detail on which its light is flashed in passing . Thus in Fifine the illustration derived from a visionary retrospect of Venice , and ...
... brings to bear upon its central object by way of direct and vivid illustration every symbol and every detail on which its light is flashed in passing . Thus in Fifine the illustration derived from a visionary retrospect of Venice , and ...
Page xxviii
... bring his disguised wife into the company of her paramour and reassure her supposed scruples with his pithy arguments against conjugal fidelity , while he lets fly at her supposed husband the well - worn jests which recoil on his own ...
... bring his disguised wife into the company of her paramour and reassure her supposed scruples with his pithy arguments against conjugal fidelity , while he lets fly at her supposed husband the well - worn jests which recoil on his own ...
Page xli
... brings before us a figure at once full - grown , and takes no care but to enforce the first impression by constant deepening of the lines first drawn , not by addition of fresh light and shade , by softening or heightening of minor ...
... brings before us a figure at once full - grown , and takes no care but to enforce the first impression by constant deepening of the lines first drawn , not by addition of fresh light and shade , by softening or heightening of minor ...
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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.