With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth Series, Band 10Houghton Mifflin, 1919 - 311 Seiten |
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... carried away by ex- cess of passion . Hippolytus has dedicated himself to an austere ideal of chastity . No doubt , the pure abstinence of his life is painted in glowing colours , but the real thought of the dramatist is conveyed in the ...
... carried away by ex- cess of passion . Hippolytus has dedicated himself to an austere ideal of chastity . No doubt , the pure abstinence of his life is painted in glowing colours , but the real thought of the dramatist is conveyed in the ...
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... carried it out , has justified this expecta- tion . Fletcher uses ye for both numbers and cases , and in both serious and comic scenes , with great frequency , and is distinguished by this mannerism from , at least , Shakespeare ...
... carried it out , has justified this expecta- tion . Fletcher uses ye for both numbers and cases , and in both serious and comic scenes , with great frequency , and is distinguished by this mannerism from , at least , Shakespeare ...
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... carried the investigation ; nor , I confess , have I gone through the literature of the sub- ject to see whether any curious reader has forestalled me in the suggestion . Possibly some one else , who has more time and inclination for ...
... carried the investigation ; nor , I confess , have I gone through the literature of the sub- ject to see whether any curious reader has forestalled me in the suggestion . Possibly some one else , who has more time and inclination for ...
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... carry it on as doth not dwell in great numbers , but is restrained to so very few , especially in this age , that , let the methods appear never so reason- able in paper , they must fail in practice , which will ever be suited more to ...
... carry it on as doth not dwell in great numbers , but is restrained to so very few , especially in this age , that , let the methods appear never so reason- able in paper , they must fail in practice , which will ever be suited more to ...
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... carried him in a different direction : rebus aliter visum . He never lost his tenderness for his friends , and his sympathy for specific cases of distress , whether personal or national , remained with him so long as he kept his ...
... carried him in a different direction : rebus aliter visum . He never lost his tenderness for his friends , and his sympathy for specific cases of distress , whether personal or national , remained with him so long as he kept his ...
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acts Addison Æschylus amusement Aphra Behn Arbuthnot Aubrey Beardsley Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Behn Behn's Berkeley Berkeley's Bernbaum Bolingbroke called character charm comedy Country Wife criticism cynicism death Deism doubt drama dramatists Duke of Wharton Dunciad emotions England English essay Euripides evil feeling fools G. P. Putnam's Sons genius Gray Gray's Halifax heart Hippolytus honour human nature imagination judgement kind King Lady Mary Lady Mary's least letters literary literature live Lord Maid's Tragedy malice mankind ment mind Montagu moral never Oroonoko passion perhaps philosophy play poems poet poetry political Pope Pope's Puritan Queen religion satire scene seemed sense society soul spirit Swift tender thing thou thought tion to-day tragedy true truth Twickenham verse virtue Walpole Whig whole wife woman words Wortley write wrote ye's you's young
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Seite 144 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 115 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Seite 193 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Seite 258 - He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements : and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening.
Seite 181 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Seite 131 - New distant scenes of endless science rise. So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise...
Seite 291 - LAST night ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Seite 129 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Seite 125 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
Seite 144 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...