The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page ix
... kind than floats about the memory of most other poets . In the great revival of studious enthusiasm for the works of the many famous men who won themselves a name during the seventy - five memorable years of his laborious life , the ...
... kind than floats about the memory of most other poets . In the great revival of studious enthusiasm for the works of the many famous men who won themselves a name during the seventy - five memorable years of his laborious life , the ...
Page x
... kind most likely to increase in the contagion of such company . He had received from nature at his birth a profuse and turbid imagination , a fiery energy and restless ardour of moral passion and spiritual ambition , with a plentiful ...
... kind most likely to increase in the contagion of such company . He had received from nature at his birth a profuse and turbid imagination , a fiery energy and restless ardour of moral passion and spiritual ambition , with a plentiful ...
Page xii
... kind of majesty to poesy is better than that which every cobbler may sing to his patch . Obscurity in affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish ; but where it shroudeth itself in the heart of his subject ...
... kind of majesty to poesy is better than that which every cobbler may sing to his patch . Obscurity in affection of words and indigested conceits is pedantical and childish ; but where it shroudeth itself in the heart of his subject ...
Page xix
... kind , with this note at the foot of it : " For the rest of his own invention , figures and similes , touching their aptness and novelty , he hath not laboured to justify them , because he hopes they will be proved enough to justify ...
... kind , with this note at the foot of it : " For the rest of his own invention , figures and similes , touching their aptness and novelty , he hath not laboured to justify them , because he hopes they will be proved enough to justify ...
Page xxviii
... kind offices of his worthy son - in - law . Not only have the poets given proof of a gentler morality and a juster sense of justice than the great painter who followed long after in the track of their invention , but they have contrived ...
... kind offices of his worthy son - in - law . Not only have the poets given proof of a gentler morality and a juster sense of justice than the great painter who followed long after in the track of their invention , but they have contrived ...
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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.