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... seen himself a grandfather at the age of forty - three , he was cut off rather suddenly on his fifty- third birthday , in the year 1616 — all this , with a good many supplementary details for which we have to thank Mr. Collier , is , or ...
... seen himself a grandfather at the age of forty - three , he was cut off rather suddenly on his fifty- third birthday , in the year 1616 — all this , with a good many supplementary details for which we have to thank Mr. Collier , is , or ...
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... seen in the Prince of Denmark , seem to have distinguished Shakespeare . Nor is it possible here to forget that minor and lower form of the same fancy - the ornament of As you like it , the melancholy Jaques . 66 Jaques . More , more ...
... seen in the Prince of Denmark , seem to have distinguished Shakespeare . Nor is it possible here to forget that minor and lower form of the same fancy - the ornament of As you like it , the melancholy Jaques . 66 Jaques . More , more ...
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... seen in the case of any other poet . It seems to have been a habit of his mind , when left to its own tendency , ever to indulge by preference in that oldest of human meditations , which is not yet trite- " Man that is born of a woman ...
... seen in the case of any other poet . It seems to have been a habit of his mind , when left to its own tendency , ever to indulge by preference in that oldest of human meditations , which is not yet trite- " Man that is born of a woman ...
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... seen , by his constitution and fortune , from certain modes of attaining to this honour- the special function which , in this high place , he saw himself called upon to discharge , and by the discharge of which he has ensured his place ...
... seen , by his constitution and fortune , from certain modes of attaining to this honour- the special function which , in this high place , he saw himself called upon to discharge , and by the discharge of which he has ensured his place ...
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... seen through the leafy labours of his prede- cessors ; he left it clothed throughout with the wealth and autumnal luxuriance of his own unparalleled language . This brings us , by a very natural connexion , to what we have to say of ...
... seen through the leafy labours of his prede- cessors ; he left it clothed throughout with the wealth and autumnal luxuriance of his own unparalleled language . This brings us , by a very natural connexion , to what we have to say of ...
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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...