Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Hart, Carey & Hart, 1854 |
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... play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the interest , tran- sient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dex- terous Capuchins never choose to ...
... play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the interest , tran- sient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dex- terous Capuchins never choose to ...
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... play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves others to fill up the outline . He strikes the key - note , and expects his hearer to make out the melody . We often hear of the magical influence of poetry . The expression in ...
... play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves others to fill up the outline . He strikes the key - note , and expects his hearer to make out the melody . We often hear of the magical influence of poetry . The expression in ...
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... plays . There are perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight , and to let nothing appear but his characters . As soon as he ...
... plays . There are perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight , and to let nothing appear but his characters . As soon as he ...
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... plays , his works are absurd : considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the description of the seven Argive chiefs , by the princi ...
... plays , his works are absurd : considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the description of the seven Argive chiefs , by the princi ...
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... play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet , as in a good ode . The conflicting ingredients , like an acid and an alkali mixed , neutralize each other . We are by no means insensible to the merits of this celebrated piece , to ...
... play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet , as in a good ode . The conflicting ingredients , like an acid and an alkali mixed , neutralize each other . We are by no means insensible to the merits of this celebrated piece , to ...
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Página 360 - No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go." Oh! was there ever such a knight in friendship or in war, As our sovereign lord, King Henry, the soldier of Navarre. Ho! maidens of
Página 320 - WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan; but, as a whole, it
Página 128 - any thing in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. - The latter manner he practises most frequently in his tragedies, the former in his comedies. The comic characters are, without mixture, loathsome and despicable. The men of Etherege and Vanbrugh are bad enough; those of
Página 210 - contained one weapon which could pierce him, that weapon his pursuers were bound, before God and man, to employ. "If he may Find mercy in the law, 'tis his: if none, Let him not seek 't of us." Such was the language which the Parliament might justly use.
Página 360 - fall full well he may— For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray— Press where ye see my white plume shine, amids-t the ranks of war And be your
Página 366 - FAITHFUL. May I speak a few words in my own defence ? " JUDGE. Sirrah, sirrah! thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet, that all men may see our gentleness to thee, let us hear what thou,
Página 360 - And mocked the counsel of the wise and the valour of the brave. Then glory to his holy name, from whom all glories are ; And glory to our sovereign lord, King Henry of Navarre.
Página 363 - I lifted up my head; but methought I saw as if the sun that shincth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the streets and tiles upon the houses did band themselves against me. Methought that
Página 155 - are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.
Página 57 - vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into