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... . With this gloomy fact offered to the very external senses , it is difficult to suppose that any parents would risk their own reproaches by putting the fulfilment of so grave a duty on the hazard of 18 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.
... . With this gloomy fact offered to the very external senses , it is difficult to suppose that any parents would risk their own reproaches by putting the fulfilment of so grave a duty on the hazard of 18 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.
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... sense of his own power in a difficult and rare accomplishment for some peculiar force or beauty in the passage . Such was the outline of his literary taste . And was it upon Shakspeare only , or upon him chiefly , that he lavished his ...
... sense of his own power in a difficult and rare accomplishment for some peculiar force or beauty in the passage . Such was the outline of his literary taste . And was it upon Shakspeare only , or upon him chiefly , that he lavished his ...
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... sense from Lord Shaftesbury , not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry , although he wrote about its mechanic rules . Still the royal imprimatur would be influential and serviceable no less ...
... sense from Lord Shaftesbury , not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry , although he wrote about its mechanic rules . Still the royal imprimatur would be influential and serviceable no less ...
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... sense , but an outburst of sixteen lines of heroic rhyme , beginning " What needs my Shakespeare ? " - M . 2 " Then to the well - trod stage anon , If Jonson's learned sock be on , Or sweetest Shakespeare , fancy's child , Warble his ...
... sense , but an outburst of sixteen lines of heroic rhyme , beginning " What needs my Shakespeare ? " - M . 2 " Then to the well - trod stage anon , If Jonson's learned sock be on , Or sweetest Shakespeare , fancy's child , Warble his ...
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... sense , by birth as well as by connexions ) bore the beautiful name of Mary Arden , a name derived from the ancient forest district of the county ; and doubtless she merits a more elaborate notice than our slender materials will furnish ...
... sense , by birth as well as by connexions ) bore the beautiful name of Mary Arden , a name derived from the ancient forest district of the county ; and doubtless she merits a more elaborate notice than our slender materials will furnish ...
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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.