The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Nide 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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Sivu 32
... heart . All these ends , the awful severity of its subjects refuses . But its beauties are the fruits of its theme . They are flowers of its own soil . They are implements to impress its own lessons . They are pictures of the age , and ...
... heart . All these ends , the awful severity of its subjects refuses . But its beauties are the fruits of its theme . They are flowers of its own soil . They are implements to impress its own lessons . They are pictures of the age , and ...
Sivu 42
... to me , for touching the deeper tones of the heart , the Hebrew poetry has an internal grandeur , compared with which , the songs of mythology , are cold and unmeaning . THE PURITAN . No. 35 . It is also , 42 THE PURITAN .
... to me , for touching the deeper tones of the heart , the Hebrew poetry has an internal grandeur , compared with which , the songs of mythology , are cold and unmeaning . THE PURITAN . No. 35 . It is also , 42 THE PURITAN .
Sivu 45
... heart ; and that such exhibitions may be moral , so long as ex- ample is a motive to action . I assent to the proposi- tion of the critics , that a good drama , is the highest effort of human genius ; and , perhaps , no man can give a ...
... heart ; and that such exhibitions may be moral , so long as ex- ample is a motive to action . I assent to the proposi- tion of the critics , that a good drama , is the highest effort of human genius ; and , perhaps , no man can give a ...
Sivu 46
... heart just as God made it . I have remarked , that he wrote without any moral design ; and as a proof of the truth of this remark , I would adduce one of his most moral plays . Mac- beth is one of the noblest productions of his genius ...
... heart just as God made it . I have remarked , that he wrote without any moral design ; and as a proof of the truth of this remark , I would adduce one of his most moral plays . Mac- beth is one of the noblest productions of his genius ...
Sivu 49
... heart , which may be the root alike of virtues or vices , as the occasion may be . Accordingly , Macbeth is tempted by the powers of hell , and by his wife ; and both of them , with great art , suit their suggestions to the weak side of ...
... heart , which may be the root alike of virtues or vices , as the occasion may be . Accordingly , Macbeth is tempted by the powers of hell , and by his wife ; and both of them , with great art , suit their suggestions to the weak side of ...
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Sivu 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Sivu 57 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Sivu 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Sivu 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Sivu 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Sivu 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Sivu 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Sivu 229 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Sivu 37 - Rocks, dens, and caves ! But I in none of these Find place or refuge ; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel...
Sivu 106 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.