The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4 |
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... critical epoch of his young life may turn to the vignette in our last volume . It will speak for itself . The deliberations at the Priory , Chester , resulted , as we know , in his being sent to Oxford in the end of 1803 , to make the ...
... critical epoch of his young life may turn to the vignette in our last volume . It will speak for itself . The deliberations at the Priory , Chester , resulted , as we know , in his being sent to Oxford in the end of 1803 , to make the ...
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... critical collations of the text ; and , accord- ingly , Addison looked upon all of them , except those few who professed themselves followers in the retinue and equipage of the ancients , as creatures of a lower race . Boileau , as a ...
... critical collations of the text ; and , accord- ingly , Addison looked upon all of them , except those few who professed themselves followers in the retinue and equipage of the ancients , as creatures of a lower race . Boileau , as a ...
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... critical editions started in hot succession to one another . The names we have mentioned were the great influential names of the century . But of inferior homage there was no end . How came Betterton the actor , how came Davenant , how ...
... critical editions started in hot succession to one another . The names we have mentioned were the great influential names of the century . But of inferior homage there was no end . How came Betterton the actor , how came Davenant , how ...
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... critical journals and of newspapers were not at hand to diffuse or to strengthen the impressions which emanated from the capital , all opinions must have travelled slowly into the provinces . But even then , whilst the perfect organs of ...
... critical journals and of newspapers were not at hand to diffuse or to strengthen the impressions which emanated from the capital , all opinions must have travelled slowly into the provinces . But even then , whilst the perfect organs of ...
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... this subject . Innumerable references to Homer , and brief critical remarks on this or that pretension of Homer , this or that 1 In the present volume , pp . 86-102 . - M . scene , this or that passage , lie scattered over 84 APPENDED ...
... this subject . Innumerable references to Homer , and brief critical remarks on this or that pretension of Homer , this or that 1 In the present volume , pp . 86-102 . - M . scene , this or that passage , lie scattered over 84 APPENDED ...
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Page 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Page 98 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.