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... sentiment , and character of Spain , during the glorious dominion of the Mahommedans in Granada , and we shall see that , while the Moorish or Arab element forms an integral , per- manent , and essential ingredient in the language of ...
... sentiment , and character of Spain , during the glorious dominion of the Mahommedans in Granada , and we shall see that , while the Moorish or Arab element forms an integral , per- manent , and essential ingredient in the language of ...
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... sentiment , or a finer flush in the colours of language , than in this Rubens of English poetry . " But perhaps the best and most comprehensive criticism upon Spenser's merit is that recorded by Pope in one of his letters to Spence ...
... sentiment , or a finer flush in the colours of language , than in this Rubens of English poetry . " But perhaps the best and most comprehensive criticism upon Spenser's merit is that recorded by Pope in one of his letters to Spence ...
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... sentiment . Jonson has left on record his admiration for " Marlow's mighty line , " as he so nobly expresses the peculiar character of this dramatist's wild and swelling spirit ; and the Eschylus of the Eng- lish stage , like his great ...
... sentiment . Jonson has left on record his admiration for " Marlow's mighty line , " as he so nobly expresses the peculiar character of this dramatist's wild and swelling spirit ; and the Eschylus of the Eng- lish stage , like his great ...
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... sentiment which it is the legitimate province of tragedy to present . The peculiar excellence of this great writer lay in the representation of the weaknesses and affectations of common and domestic life in the delineation of what were ...
... sentiment which it is the legitimate province of tragedy to present . The peculiar excellence of this great writer lay in the representation of the weaknesses and affectations of common and domestic life in the delineation of what were ...
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... sentiment ? In the last play which we have spoken of , the pathos is absolutely carried so far that it oversteps the true limits of dramatic sufferance ; nay , almost trangresses the bounds of human endurance . How confident must he ...
... sentiment ? In the last play which we have spoken of , the pathos is absolutely carried so far that it oversteps the true limits of dramatic sufferance ; nay , almost trangresses the bounds of human endurance . How confident must he ...
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Страница 289 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Страница 234 - 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.
Страница 244 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 218 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Страница 168 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Страница 160 - Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
Страница 134 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Страница 157 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Страница 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Страница 266 - The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.