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... on fuch a writer as Shakespear . Sometimes we are , but never to so much advantage as when he happens to forget himself in this refpect . When Clau- B 2 dio , L dio , in Measure for Measure , pleads for OF IMITATION . 19.
... on fuch a writer as Shakespear . Sometimes we are , but never to so much advantage as when he happens to forget himself in this refpect . When Clau- B 2 dio , L dio , in Measure for Measure , pleads for OF IMITATION . 19.
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... Shakespear had never dreamt of but for Virgil's Platonic hell ; where , as we read , aliæ panduntur inanes Sufpenfæ ad ventos : aliis fub gurgite vafto , Infectum eluitur fcelus , aut exuritur igni . Virg . L. vi . 2. A prodigiously ...
... Shakespear had never dreamt of but for Virgil's Platonic hell ; where , as we read , aliæ panduntur inanes Sufpenfæ ad ventos : aliis fub gurgite vafto , Infectum eluitur fcelus , aut exuritur igni . Virg . L. vi . 2. A prodigiously ...
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... Shake- spear , besides that they certainly carry the notion of his illiteracy too far , forget that the Pagan imagery was familiar to all the poets of his time that abun- dance of this fort of learning was to be pick'd up from almoft ev ...
... Shake- spear , besides that they certainly carry the notion of his illiteracy too far , forget that the Pagan imagery was familiar to all the poets of his time that abun- dance of this fort of learning was to be pick'd up from almoft ev ...
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... Shakespear was fo fenfible of his Superi- ority , that he could not help exulting a little upon it , where he makes ... Shakespear's Genius and all Johnson's learn- ing has carried this courtly entertainment to it's last perfection . But ...
... Shakespear was fo fenfible of his Superi- ority , that he could not help exulting a little upon it , where he makes ... Shakespear's Genius and all Johnson's learn- ing has carried this courtly entertainment to it's last perfection . But ...
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... Shakespear had faid of Henry ivth . He cannot long hold out these pangs ; The inceffant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure , that should confine it in , So thin , that life looks through , and will break out . Hen . iv ...
... Shakespear had faid of Henry ivth . He cannot long hold out these pangs ; The inceffant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure , that should confine it in , So thin , that life looks through , and will break out . Hen . iv ...
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Page 30 - Paffion, all confus'd ; Still by himfelf abus'd or difabus'd; Created half to rife, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of Truth, in endlefs Error hurl'd: The glory, jeft, and riddle of the world...
Page 17 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Page 55 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Page 7 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Page 43 - Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream.
Page 43 - Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd.
Page 33 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...
Page 23 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Page 20 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 13 - All muft be falfe that thwart this One great End ; And all of God, that blefs Mankind or mend.