1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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... Essays and Reviews , vol . II , p . 248 . The following brief remarks on the critical faculty are chiefly intended to show that , for the most part , there is no such thing . It is a rara avis ; almost as rare , indeed , as the phoenix ...
... Essays and Reviews , vol . II , p . 248 . The following brief remarks on the critical faculty are chiefly intended to show that , for the most part , there is no such thing . It is a rara avis ; almost as rare , indeed , as the phoenix ...
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... Essays , First Series ; Complete Works , Riverside ed . , vol . II , p . 252 . Each order of greatness has its own eminence and should not be contrasted with another . . . The critical sense is not inoculated in an hour ; he who has not ...
... Essays , First Series ; Complete Works , Riverside ed . , vol . II , p . 252 . Each order of greatness has its own eminence and should not be contrasted with another . . . The critical sense is not inoculated in an hour ; he who has not ...
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... Essays , p . 365 . Only of late have we begun to look for criticism which applies both knowledge . and self - knowledge to the test ; which is penetrative and dexterous , but probes only to cure ; which enters into the soul and purpose ...
... Essays , p . 365 . Only of late have we begun to look for criticism which applies both knowledge . and self - knowledge to the test ; which is penetrative and dexterous , but probes only to cure ; which enters into the soul and purpose ...
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... Essays and Studies , p . 300 . 66 was This remarkable play when first published attributed to the joint authorship of Dekker , Ford , Rowley , ' & c . " - safety being evidently sought in numbers ; but critical opinion has agreed in ...
... Essays and Studies , p . 300 . 66 was This remarkable play when first published attributed to the joint authorship of Dekker , Ford , Rowley , ' & c . " - safety being evidently sought in numbers ; but critical opinion has agreed in ...
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... Essays and Re- views , vol . II , p . 70 . In fulness and fine equability Ford was far below Massinger ; but in intensity , in the power of making an audience miserable and moving them to tears , he was thought to excel him . Indeed the ...
... Essays and Re- views , vol . II , p . 70 . In fulness and fine equability Ford was far below Massinger ; but in intensity , in the power of making an audience miserable and moving them to tears , he was thought to excel him . Indeed the ...
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Página 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Página 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Página 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Página 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Página 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Página 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Página 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.