The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xxvii
... heads of poets to whom in that age all eyes looked up which would have looked down on him , as ever did the illustrious Latinist Buchanan against the mother of the worthy patron whose countenance would probably have sufficed to protect ...
... heads of poets to whom in that age all eyes looked up which would have looked down on him , as ever did the illustrious Latinist Buchanan against the mother of the worthy patron whose countenance would probably have sufficed to protect ...
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... head , have in them enough of wit and humorous invention to furnish forth the whole five acts of an ordinary comedy of intrigue . Even in these sketches from the prosaic life of their day the great and generous poets of that age were as ...
... head , have in them enough of wit and humorous invention to furnish forth the whole five acts of an ordinary comedy of intrigue . Even in these sketches from the prosaic life of their day the great and generous poets of that age were as ...
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... head remains clear and his hand sure , the high air of this poetry is fresh and buoyant , and its full cadences have in them a large echo as of mountain winds and waters . And if Webster , with the generous justice proper to a great ...
... head remains clear and his hand sure , the high air of this poetry is fresh and buoyant , and its full cadences have in them a large echo as of mountain winds and waters . And if Webster , with the generous justice proper to a great ...
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... head is bare before the thunders , and whose sides are furrowed with stormy streams ; and from all its rocks and torrents , crags and scaurs and gulleys , there seems to look forth the likeness afar off of a single face , superhuman and ...
... head is bare before the thunders , and whose sides are furrowed with stormy streams ; and from all its rocks and torrents , crags and scaurs and gulleys , there seems to look forth the likeness afar off of a single face , superhuman and ...
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George Chapman Richard Herne Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne. them with the head and eyes of an Apollo looking homeward from earth into the sun : a face and figure , in the poet's own great phrase , " Like his desire , lift upward ...
George Chapman Richard Herne Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne. them with the head and eyes of an Apollo looking homeward from earth into the sun : a face and figure , in the poet's own great phrase , " Like his desire , lift upward ...
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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.