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... human intellect , was born at Stratford - upon - Avon , in the county of Warwick , in the year 1564 , and upon some day , not precisely ascertained , in the month of April . It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th ; and from that ...
... human intellect , was born at Stratford - upon - Avon , in the county of Warwick , in the year 1564 , and upon some day , not precisely ascertained , in the month of April . It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th ; and from that ...
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... human nature , and will impress that lesson with a searching force , such as no borrowed experience ever can approach . Most probable it is that Shakspeare drew some of his powerful scenes in the Timon of Athens , those which exhibit ...
... human nature , and will impress that lesson with a searching force , such as no borrowed experience ever can approach . Most probable it is that Shakspeare drew some of his powerful scenes in the Timon of Athens , those which exhibit ...
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... human nature , would have mostly cultivated that class of society in which the feelings are more elementary and simple , in which the thoughts speak a plainer language , and in which the restraints of factitious or conventional decorum ...
... human nature , would have mostly cultivated that class of society in which the feelings are more elementary and simple , in which the thoughts speak a plainer language , and in which the restraints of factitious or conventional decorum ...
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... human dulness do not exceed . Let us recapitulate the points of the story : -A baronet , who has no deer and no park , is supposed to persecute a poet for stealing these aerial deer out of this aerial park , both lying in ...
... human dulness do not exceed . Let us recapitulate the points of the story : -A baronet , who has no deer and no park , is supposed to persecute a poet for stealing these aerial deer out of this aerial park , both lying in ...
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... human dotage cannot advance . It is painful , indeed , and dishonourable to human nature , that , whenever men of vulgar habits and of poor education wish to impress us with a feeling of respect for a man's talents , they are sure to ...
... human dotage cannot advance . It is painful , indeed , and dishonourable to human nature , that , whenever men of vulgar habits and of poor education wish to impress us with a feeling of respect for a man's talents , they are sure to ...
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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.