Comedy of The TempestHarper, 1881 |
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... poet , told Thomas Warton that he had seen such a novel , with the title of Aurelio and Isa- bella , and that it was " printed in Italian , Spanish , French , and English , in 1588 ; " and Boswell says that a friend of his . assured him ...
... poet , told Thomas Warton that he had seen such a novel , with the title of Aurelio and Isa- bella , and that it was " printed in Italian , Spanish , French , and English , in 1588 ; " and Boswell says that a friend of his . assured him ...
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... poet . It is a species of drama which owes no alle- giance to time or space , and in which , therefore , errors of chronology and geography -- no mortal sins in any species- are venial faults , and count for nothing . It addresses ...
... poet . It is a species of drama which owes no alle- giance to time or space , and in which , therefore , errors of chronology and geography -- no mortal sins in any species- are venial faults , and count for nothing . It addresses ...
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... poet must have continued to improve with in- creasing maturity of mind , have honoured the last piece with a marked preference . I cannot , however , altogether concur with them the intrinsic merits of these two works are , in my ...
... poet must have continued to improve with in- creasing maturity of mind , have honoured the last piece with a marked preference . I cannot , however , altogether concur with them the intrinsic merits of these two works are , in my ...
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... poet , as poetry is altogether incompatible with mechan- ical physics , but which few have possessed in an equal degree with Dante and himself . [ From Mrs. Jameson's “ Characteristics of Women . " ] We might have deemed it impossible ...
... poet , as poetry is altogether incompatible with mechan- ical physics , but which few have possessed in an equal degree with Dante and himself . [ From Mrs. Jameson's “ Characteristics of Women . " ] We might have deemed it impossible ...
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... poets peopled the forest depths , the fountain or the ocean ? — oread or dryad fleet , sea - maid , or naiad of the stream ? We cannot think of them together . Miranda is a consistent , natural human being . Our impression of her nymph ...
... poets peopled the forest depths , the fountain or the ocean ? — oread or dryad fleet , sea - maid , or naiad of the stream ? We cannot think of them together . Miranda is a consistent , natural human being . Our impression of her nymph ...
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Página 106 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be reliev'd by prayer ; Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be. Let your indulgence set me free.] NOTES.
Página 97 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 115 - How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale; Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on 't? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
Página 50 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Página 49 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Página 42 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Página 48 - Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with ; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this rock, Who hadst...
Página 36 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O! I have suffered With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Página 83 - O, it is monstrous ! monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Página 105 - I'll be wise hereafter, And seek for grace : What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool ! Pro.