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... fact is as it is ; these Sonnets of Shakespeare are auto- biographic distinctly , intensely , painfully autobiographic , although in a style and after a fashion of autobiography so peculiar , that we can cite only Dante in his Vita ...
... fact is as it is ; these Sonnets of Shakespeare are auto- biographic distinctly , intensely , painfully autobiographic , although in a style and after a fashion of autobiography so peculiar , that we can cite only Dante in his Vita ...
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... fact , Shake- speare has beggared all his posterity , and left mere practition- ers of expression nothing possible to do . There is perhaps not a thought , or feeling , or situation , really common and generic to human life , on which ...
... fact , Shake- speare has beggared all his posterity , and left mere practition- ers of expression nothing possible to do . There is perhaps not a thought , or feeling , or situation , really common and generic to human life , on which ...
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... fact , there remains for him , the aftercomer , nothing more to do . And how could one get courage to put pen to paper , if one were conscious , in an earnest appreciating spirit , that such un- fathomable and unattainable excellences ...
... fact , there remains for him , the aftercomer , nothing more to do . And how could one get courage to put pen to paper , if one were conscious , in an earnest appreciating spirit , that such un- fathomable and unattainable excellences ...
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... incidents connected with Goethe's youth , both in Frankfort and in Weimar ; but to what extent these traditions are founded on fact is a matter which we have never yet seen any attempt to decide 28 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
... incidents connected with Goethe's youth , both in Frankfort and in Weimar ; but to what extent these traditions are founded on fact is a matter which we have never yet seen any attempt to decide 28 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
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... fact of his carelessness as to the fate of his composi- tions , we can very well conceive that literature and culture and all that formed but a small part of the general system of things in Shakespeare's daily thoughts , and that he ...
... fact of his carelessness as to the fate of his composi- tions , we can very well conceive that literature and culture and all that formed but a small part of the general system of things in Shakespeare's daily thoughts , and that he ...
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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...