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... course of future decorations , he is content that it should be as it is . And so , reader , for the present are we . Let us enter to- gether , then , if it seems worth while , the room of this imagi- nary dilettante during his absence ...
... course of future decorations , he is content that it should be as it is . And so , reader , for the present are we . Let us enter to- gether , then , if it seems worth while , the room of this imagi- nary dilettante during his absence ...
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... course , right on this point . So , also , in the main , is M. Guizot , although he mars the worth of the con- clusion by adducing the foolish theory of Euphuism — that is , of the adoption of an affected style of expression in vogue in ...
... course , right on this point . So , also , in the main , is M. Guizot , although he mars the worth of the con- clusion by adducing the foolish theory of Euphuism — that is , of the adoption of an affected style of expression in vogue in ...
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... course so similar to that which Shakespeare had pursued , this was a matter of incalculable importance . Either , on the one hand , the value of all that the second man could do , if he adhered to a course precisely similar , must ...
... course so similar to that which Shakespeare had pursued , this was a matter of incalculable importance . Either , on the one hand , the value of all that the second man could do , if he adhered to a course precisely similar , must ...
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... and seek about for a new outlet in order to escape injurious comparisons . But , even under such circumstances , to have pursued a course very similar to that of Shakespeare , and to have been animated by a SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 25.
... and seek about for a new outlet in order to escape injurious comparisons . But , even under such circumstances , to have pursued a course very similar to that of Shakespeare , and to have been animated by a SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 25.
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... course of events had opened up the communication which was sure to take place at some time between the German and the English literatures , and so made his countrymen acquainted with Shakespeare , he would have lost his extreme ...
... course of events had opened up the communication which was sure to take place at some time between the German and the English literatures , and so made his countrymen acquainted with Shakespeare , he would have lost his extreme ...
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - 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 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - 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...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... 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 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...