The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xx
... poor handful of English ' in the first act ' of the Thirty Years ' War , * ( ' besieged and distressed in Mainhem , ' Chapman tells us , ) in the ears of the courtiers of James I. A quainter example of this interest in the foreign ...
... poor handful of English ' in the first act ' of the Thirty Years ' War , * ( ' besieged and distressed in Mainhem , ' Chapman tells us , ) in the ears of the courtiers of James I. A quainter example of this interest in the foreign ...
Page xxxi
... poor in amiable sentiment . There is a brutal exuberant fun throughout the whole action which finds its com . plete expression and consummation in the brawny gallantry and muscular merri- ment of Tharsalio . A speculative commentator ...
... poor in amiable sentiment . There is a brutal exuberant fun throughout the whole action which finds its com . plete expression and consummation in the brawny gallantry and muscular merri- ment of Tharsalio . A speculative commentator ...
Page xliii
... poor ghost ' whose second resurrection was insufficient to impel him to the discharge of his office than this yet more deliberate and meditative avenger of blood : and it is not without cause that the tardy shade of Bussy rises to ...
... poor ghost ' whose second resurrection was insufficient to impel him to the discharge of his office than this yet more deliberate and meditative avenger of blood : and it is not without cause that the tardy shade of Bussy rises to ...
Page xlvii
... Poor envious souls they are , ' says the poet , that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions ; a reasonable and memorable protest against the perverse or senseless paradox which confounds truth with fact and refuses to ...
... Poor envious souls they are , ' says the poet , that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions ; a reasonable and memorable protest against the perverse or senseless paradox which confounds truth with fact and refuses to ...
Page lvii
... poor in spirit or too covetous of reward to draw the consolation of a high content . This strong and sovereign solace against all the evils that can beset the failing age and fallen fortunes of a brave man he surely deserved , if ever ...
... poor in spirit or too covetous of reward to draw the consolation of a high content . This strong and sovereign solace against all the evils that can beset the failing age and fallen fortunes of a brave man he surely deserved , if ever ...
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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.