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... least in later life , was browner and more wrinkled ; his hair more dark ; his eye also , as we think , nearer the black and lustrous in species , if less mysteriously vague and deep ; and his person perhaps the taller and more ...
... least in later life , was browner and more wrinkled ; his hair more dark ; his eye also , as we think , nearer the black and lustrous in species , if less mysteriously vague and deep ; and his person perhaps the taller and more ...
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... least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans , by race more our brethren , worship him as their own highest product too , though born by chance amongst us . All confess him to have been one of those ...
... least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans , by race more our brethren , worship him as their own highest product too , though born by chance amongst us . All confess him to have been one of those ...
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... least to reduce very much in value , the com- mon idea of him implied in such phrases as William the Calm , William the Cheerful , and the like . These phrases are true , when understood in a certain very obvious sense ; but if we were ...
... least to reduce very much in value , the com- mon idea of him implied in such phrases as William the Calm , William the Cheerful , and the like . These phrases are true , when understood in a certain very obvious sense ; but if we were ...
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... least ; Yet , in these thoughts myself almost despising , Haply I think on thee , " & c . Think of that , reader ! That mask of Shakespeare's face , which we have been discussing , Shakespeare himself did not like ; and there were ...
... least ; Yet , in these thoughts myself almost despising , Haply I think on thee , " & c . Think of that , reader ! That mask of Shakespeare's face , which we have been discussing , Shakespeare himself did not like ; and there were ...
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... least may be affirmed without fear of contradiction , that there never was a mind in the world from which , when it was pricked by any occasion whatever , there poured forth on the instant such a stream of precious substance ...
... least may be affirmed without fear of contradiction , that there never was a mind in the world from which , when it was pricked by any occasion whatever , there poured forth on the instant such a stream of precious substance ...
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Page 11 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 3 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 54 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 433 - Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...
Page 452 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 47 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 370 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Page 453 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 453 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 27 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...