The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xiii
... face of the prejudicate and peremptory reader ' whose ears he belabours with " ' very bitter words , " and with words not less turgid than were hurled by Pistol at the head of the recalcitrant and contumelious Mistress Tearsheet : VOL ...
... face of the prejudicate and peremptory reader ' whose ears he belabours with " ' very bitter words , " and with words not less turgid than were hurled by Pistol at the head of the recalcitrant and contumelious Mistress Tearsheet : VOL ...
Page xxv
... can discover on the jocund face of a delightful comic poem . It is not impossible that the merit of pure and lucid style which distinguishes the best comedies of Chapman from the bulk of his other POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . XXV.
... can discover on the jocund face of a delightful comic poem . It is not impossible that the merit of pure and lucid style which distinguishes the best comedies of Chapman from the bulk of his other POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . XXV.
Page xxvii
... face of man , ' approved himself the like - minded son of a Roman - spirited mother by coming forward to share the certainty of imprisonment and the probability of mutilation with the two comrades who without his knowledge had inserted ...
... face of man , ' approved himself the like - minded son of a Roman - spirited mother by coming forward to share the certainty of imprisonment and the probability of mutilation with the two comrades who without his knowledge had inserted ...
Page xli
... face the contamination of such writers as Hugo or Alfieri ; while the virtue thus tenderly guarded from the very sight of a Marion or a Mirra was by way of compensation - there is a law of com- pensation in all things - graciously ...
... face the contamination of such writers as Hugo or Alfieri ; while the virtue thus tenderly guarded from the very sight of a Marion or a Mirra was by way of compensation - there is a law of com- pensation in all things - graciously ...
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... face , superhuman and in- ordinate in the proportion of its prodigious features . The general effect is as that of some vast caprice of landscape ; at once fantastic , exaggerated , and natural . Around it we may group the remaining ...
... face , superhuman and in- ordinate in the proportion of its prodigious features . The general effect is as that of some vast caprice of landscape ; at once fantastic , exaggerated , and natural . Around it we may group the remaining ...
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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.