De Quincey's Writings, Volume 2Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
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... play of King Lear , speaks of the original as an obscure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend ; and the author of the Tatler , having occasion to quote a few lines out of Macbeth , was content to receive them from Davenant's ...
... play of King Lear , speaks of the original as an obscure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend ; and the author of the Tatler , having occasion to quote a few lines out of Macbeth , was content to receive them from Davenant's ...
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... play as then in posses- sion of the stage . It was there , beyond a doubt , that a fine gentleman living upon town , and not professing any deep scholastic knowledge of literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers ...
... play as then in posses- sion of the stage . It was there , beyond a doubt , that a fine gentleman living upon town , and not professing any deep scholastic knowledge of literature , ( a light in which we are always to regard the writers ...
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... plays at Whitehall . Afterwards we know that he made Shakspeare his closet companion , for he was re- proached with doing so by Milton . And we know also , from the just criticism pronounced upon the char- acter and diction of Caliban ...
... plays at Whitehall . Afterwards we know that he made Shakspeare his closet companion , for he was re- proached with doing so by Milton . And we know also , from the just criticism pronounced upon the char- acter and diction of Caliban ...
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... plays compelled them to make alterations . The best of Shakspeare's dramas , King Lear , is the least fitted for representation ; and , even for the vilest alteration , it ought in candor to be considered that possession is nine points ...
... plays compelled them to make alterations . The best of Shakspeare's dramas , King Lear , is the least fitted for representation ; and , even for the vilest alteration , it ought in candor to be considered that possession is nine points ...
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... plays and to their author . The contemptuous appellation of " play - book , " served as readily to degrade the mighty volume which con- tained Lear and Hamlet , as that of " play - actor , " or " player - man , " has always served with ...
... plays and to their author . The contemptuous appellation of " play - book , " served as readily to degrade the mighty volume which con- tained Lear and Hamlet , as that of " play - actor , " or " player - man , " has always served with ...
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Page 44 - Too old, by heaven; Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Page 45 - Sour-ey'd 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 199 - ... the hopes which youth blends with the passion which disturbs and ennobles it : not even that he did all this cheerfully, and without pluming himself upon his brotherly nobleness as a virtue, or seeking to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining...
Page 164 - Night and silence call out the starry fancies. Milton's Morning Hymn in Paradise, we would hold a good wager, was penned at midnight; and Taylor's rich description of a sun-rise smells decidedly of the taper.
Page 114 - 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 135 - 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 13 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 163 - This is our peculiar and household planet. Wanting it, what savage unsocial nights must our ancestors have spent, wintering in caves and unillumined fastnesses ! They must have lain about and grumbled at one another in the dark.
Page 147 - ... interesting; interesting moreover by means of those very qualities which guarantee their non-popularity. The same qualities which will be found forbidding to the worldly and the thoughtless, which will be found insipid to many even amongst robust and powerful minds, are exactly those which will continue to command a select audience in every generation. The prose essays, under the signature of " Elia, " form the most delightful section amongst Lamb's works. They traverse a peculiar field of observation,...
Page 166 - He was not eloquent, in the true sense of the term ; for his thoughts were too weighty to be moved along by the shallow stream of feeling which an evening's excitement can rouse. He wrote all his lectures, and read them as they were written ; but his deep voice and earnest manner suited his matter well.