The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page x
... natural defects and dangers of his genius were precisely of the 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 ...
... natural defects and dangers of his genius were precisely of the 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 ...
Page xii
... 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 stifle the good seed of which yet she had not been sparing . " There is no confection ...
... 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 stifle the good seed of which yet she had not been sparing . " There is no confection ...
Page xvi
... nature and the latent mainspring of his deeds . This fineness of intellect and dramatic sympathy which is ever on the watch to antici- pate and answer the unspoken imputations and prepossessions of his hearer , the very movements of his ...
... nature and the latent mainspring of his deeds . This fineness of intellect and dramatic sympathy which is ever on the watch to antici- pate and answer the unspoken imputations and prepossessions of his hearer , the very movements of his ...
Page xviii
... natural and inevitable tendency to analysis , which , by the nature of things as well as by the laws of art , can only explain and express itself either through the method of direct exposition or in the form of elaborate mental ...
... natural and inevitable tendency to analysis , which , by the nature of things as well as by the laws of art , can only explain and express itself either through the method of direct exposition or in the form of elaborate mental ...
Page xix
... nature for the exercise of his highest powers : and Chapman was certainly not remarkable among the great men of his day for the specially dramatic bent of his genius . I have dwelt thus long on a seemingly irrelevant and discursive ...
... nature for the exercise of his highest powers : and Chapman was certainly not remarkable among the great men of his day for the specially dramatic bent of his genius . I have dwelt thus long on a seemingly irrelevant and discursive ...
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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.