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... regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . ) , would be likely to have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers ; but , with reference to Addison in particular ...
... regard the writers of the Spectator , Guardian , & c . ) , would be likely to have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth . This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers ; but , with reference to Addison in particular ...
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... regard to Shakspeare , we shall now proclaim a discovery which we made some twenty years ago . We , like others , from seeing frequent references to Shakspeare in the " Spectator , " had acquiesced in the com- mon belief that , although ...
... regard to Shakspeare , we shall now proclaim a discovery which we made some twenty years ago . We , like others , from seeing frequent references to Shakspeare in the " Spectator , " had acquiesced in the com- mon belief that , although ...
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... regard to his popularity ( the question then at issue ) , but with regard to his diction and choice of words . To cite Dryden as a witness for any purpose against Shakspeare , -Dryden , who of all men had the most ransacked wit and ...
... regard to his popularity ( the question then at issue ) , but with regard to his diction and choice of words . To cite Dryden as a witness for any purpose against Shakspeare , -Dryden , who of all men had the most ransacked wit and ...
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... regard to the sweeping assertion that " for nearly a hundred years after his death Shakspeare was almost entirely neglected , " we shall meet this scandalous falsehood by a rapid view of his fortunes during the century in ques- tion ...
... regard to the sweeping assertion that " for nearly a hundred years after his death Shakspeare was almost entirely neglected , " we shall meet this scandalous falsehood by a rapid view of his fortunes during the century in ques- tion ...
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... regard to the profane classics . Intellectually they admired , and would not belie their admiration ; but they did not give their hearts cordially , they did not abandon themselves to their natural impulses . They averted their eyes and ...
... regard to the profane classics . Intellectually they admired , and would not belie their admiration ; but they did not give their hearts cordially , they did not abandon themselves to their natural impulses . They averted their eyes and ...
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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.