The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... Play Virgil's Epigram of Wine and Women Virgil's Epigram of the Letter Y. A Fragment of The Tears of Peace For Good Men PAGE ix - lxxi I ΙΟΙ 103 105 107 SABA 8085 43 17 46+ 10 19 38 57 93 109 128 131 • 131 133 143 148 149 150 151 152 ...
... Play Virgil's Epigram of Wine and Women Virgil's Epigram of the Letter Y. A Fragment of The Tears of Peace For Good Men PAGE ix - lxxi I ΙΟΙ 103 105 107 SABA 8085 43 17 46+ 10 19 38 57 93 109 128 131 • 131 133 143 148 149 150 151 152 ...
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... play and keen vibration of its sleepless fires ; and the more steadily we trace their course the more surely do we see that all these forked flashes of fancy and changing lights of thought move unerringly around one centre and strike ...
... play and keen vibration of its sleepless fires ; and the more steadily we trace their course the more surely do we see that all these forked flashes of fancy and changing lights of thought move unerringly around one centre and strike ...
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... play for its especial faculties and security against its especial liabilities to error and confusion of styles ; a security for want of which his lyric and dramatic writing is apt to be neither dramatic nor lyrical , simply because of ...
... play for its especial faculties and security against its especial liabilities to error and confusion of styles ; a security for want of which his lyric and dramatic writing is apt to be neither dramatic nor lyrical , simply because of ...
Page xxii
... play ' we are driven to the alternative either of supposing Chapman to have been in Germany or of allowing him a German partner ' ( p . 33 ) , and a little before observes that there is ample room between his leaving the university ...
... play ' we are driven to the alternative either of supposing Chapman to have been in Germany or of allowing him a German partner ' ( p . 33 ) , and a little before observes that there is ample room between his leaving the university ...
Page xxiii
... play should not have been brought on the stage till the poet was thirty - six , or published till he was rising forty ; an age at which most men , who might have written such a play at sixteen , would have been unwilling to expose it to ...
... play should not have been brought on the stage till the poet was thirty - six , or published till he was rising forty ; an age at which most men , who might have written such a play at sixteen , would have been unwilling to expose it to ...
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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.