Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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Sivu 41
... genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon . The superiority of Shakspeare's natural genius for comedy cannot ...
... genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon . The superiority of Shakspeare's natural genius for comedy cannot ...
Sivu 42
... genius , while the other trusts almost entire- ly to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and raises from them a fantastical and delightful superstructure of his own ...
... genius , while the other trusts almost entire- ly to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and raises from them a fantastical and delightful superstructure of his own ...
Sivu 45
... genius : it was all forced , up - hill work , making a toil of a pleasure . And hence his overweening admiration of his own works , from the effort they had cost him , and the apprehension that they were not pro- portionably admired by ...
... genius : it was all forced , up - hill work , making a toil of a pleasure . And hence his overweening admiration of his own works , from the effort they had cost him , and the apprehension that they were not pro- portionably admired by ...
Sivu 57
... genius , but the abuse of it . They had ( many of them ) great talents committed to their trust , rich- ness of thought , and depth of feeling ; but they chose to hide them ( as much as they possibly could ) under a false show of ...
... genius , but the abuse of it . They had ( many of them ) great talents committed to their trust , rich- ness of thought , and depth of feeling ; but they chose to hide them ( as much as they possibly could ) under a false show of ...
Sivu 73
... genius , is , that from too much leaven it ferments and runs over ; and there is , unfortunately , nothing in his subject to restrain and keep it within compass . He has no story good for anything , and his characters are good for very ...
... genius , is , that from too much leaven it ferments and runs over ; and there is , unfortunately , nothing in his subject to restrain and keep it within compass . He has no story good for anything , and his characters are good for very ...
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Sivu 7 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Sivu 145 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Sivu 5 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Sivu 107 - Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want.
Sivu 73 - From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Sivu 88 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Sivu 208 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Sivu 6 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Sivu 62 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her. Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Sivu 205 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...