The Harvard Classics, Volumen39P.F. Collier & son, 1909 |
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... language by his musical ear , and by his diligence . But to return : our two great poets , being so different in their tempers , one choleric and sanguine , the other phlegmatic and melancholic ; that which makes them them excel in ...
... language by his musical ear , and by his diligence . But to return : our two great poets , being so different in their tempers , one choleric and sanguine , the other phlegmatic and melancholic ; that which makes them them excel in ...
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... language ; therefore that part of the comparison stands not on an equal foot , any more than the diction of Ennius and Ovid , or of Chaucer and our present English . The words are given up as a post not to be de- fended in our poet ...
... language ; therefore that part of the comparison stands not on an equal foot , any more than the diction of Ennius and Ovid , or of Chaucer and our present English . The words are given up as a post not to be de- fended in our poet ...
Página 173
... language , self - defense , I am sure , must be allow'd me ; and if I carry it farther , even to a sharp recrimination , somewhat may be indulg'd to human frailty . Yet my resentment has not wrought so far , but that I have follow'd ...
... language , self - defense , I am sure , must be allow'd me ; and if I carry it farther , even to a sharp recrimination , somewhat may be indulg'd to human frailty . Yet my resentment has not wrought so far , but that I have follow'd ...
Página 175
... language , which is so obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one ex- ample of his unequal numbers , which were mention'd be- fore . Yet many of his verses consist of ten syllables , and the ...
... language , which is so obsolete that his sense is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one ex- ample of his unequal numbers , which were mention'd be- fore . Yet many of his verses consist of ten syllables , and the ...
Página 176
... language . And to this I was the more embolden'd , because ( if I may be permitted to say it of myself ) I found I had a soul con- genial to his , and that I had been conversant in the same studies . Another poet , in another age , may ...
... language . And to this I was the more embolden'd , because ( if I may be permitted to say it of myself ) I found I had a soul con- genial to his , and that I had been conversant in the same studies . Another poet , in another age , may ...
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Página 310 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 217 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 261 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Página 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Página 322 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 220 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 301 - ... the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on...
Página 182 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 220 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
Página 173 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.