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Page xxi
... hand to use the means to it aright . The editor of the first and by no means the worst English anthology has ... hands of an amorous pedant , soiling with the ink of the schools the lifted hem of the garment of love ; he has found ...
... hand to use the means to it aright . The editor of the first and by no means the worst English anthology has ... hands of an amorous pedant , soiling with the ink of the schools the lifted hem of the garment of love ; he has found ...
Page xxxii
... hand , and of his alone ; nor is there any doubt that Fletcher had not a finger in it . Of the authorship of Chabot there can be no question ; the subject , the style , the manner , the metre , the construction , the characters , all ...
... hand , and of his alone ; nor is there any doubt that Fletcher had not a finger in it . Of the authorship of Chabot there can be no question ; the subject , the style , the manner , the metre , the construction , the characters , all ...
Page xxxvi
... hand which gave us The Changeling and The Witch , The Spanish Gipsy and Women beware Women . Were there but one grain of external evidence , though light as that which now inclines the scale of probabilities in favour of Chapman , I ...
... hand which gave us The Changeling and The Witch , The Spanish Gipsy and Women beware Women . Were there but one grain of external evidence , though light as that which now inclines the scale of probabilities in favour of Chapman , I ...
Page xxxvii
... hand of Dumas gave colour and life , has undergone at the heavier hand of the old English poet a singular transfiguration . He is still the irresistible duellist and amorist of tradition ; but instead of the grace and courtli- ness ...
... hand of Dumas gave colour and life , has undergone at the heavier hand of the old English poet a singular transfiguration . He is still the irresistible duellist and amorist of tradition ; but instead of the grace and courtli- ness ...
Page xxxviii
... hand is gigantic which shifts and shuffles these puppets about the board ; there are passages of a sublime and Titanic beauty , rebellious and excessive in style as in sentiment , but full of majestic and massive harmony . The ...
... hand is gigantic which shifts and shuffles these puppets about the board ; there are passages of a sublime and Titanic beauty , rebellious and excessive in style as in sentiment , but full of majestic and massive harmony . The ...
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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.