Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text, Volume 86C. Knight, 1849 - 560 pages |
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... Poets , whatever be the character of their poetry , are the objects of Gosson's new - born hostility : " Tiberius the Emperor saw somewhat when he judged Scaurus to death for writing a tragedy ; Au- gustus when he banished Ovid ; and ...
... Poets , whatever be the character of their poetry , are the objects of Gosson's new - born hostility : " Tiberius the Emperor saw somewhat when he judged Scaurus to death for writing a tragedy ; Au- gustus when he banished Ovid ; and ...
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... poetry . The highest poetry is essentially the popular poetry : it is universal in its range , it is unlimited in its duration . The lowest poetry ( if poetry it can be called ) is conventional ; it lives for a little while in narrow ...
... poetry . The highest poetry is essentially the popular poetry : it is universal in its range , it is unlimited in its duration . The lowest poetry ( if poetry it can be called ) is conventional ; it lives for a little while in narrow ...
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... poet , he nothing affirmeth , and not only for its especial abuses , but because therefore never lieth ; for , as I take it , to lie it partakes of the general infamy of Poetry . is to affirm that to be true which is false : So ...
... poet , he nothing affirmeth , and not only for its especial abuses , but because therefore never lieth ; for , as I take it , to lie it partakes of the general infamy of Poetry . is to affirm that to be true which is false : So ...
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... poetry is essentially conven- tional , being the reflection of the author's school - learning . It must be evident to all our readers that these characteristics are the very reverse of Shakspere . Schlegel says of " Locrine , ' " The ...
... poetry is essentially conven- tional , being the reflection of the author's school - learning . It must be evident to all our readers that these characteristics are the very reverse of Shakspere . Schlegel says of " Locrine , ' " The ...
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... poets of the day , as the chief supporter of pleasance now living , the Atlas of poetry , and primus verborum artifex ; whose first increase , the ' Arraign- ment of Paris , ' might plead to your opinions his pregnant dexterity of wit ...
... poets of the day , as the chief supporter of pleasance now living , the Atlas of poetry , and primus verborum artifex ; whose first increase , the ' Arraign- ment of Paris , ' might plead to your opinions his pregnant dexterity of wit ...
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Page 477 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 299 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 478 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 468 - I'll read, his for his love. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 58 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. "Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of...
Page 493 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since spite of him I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes. And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 496 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay,...
Page 317 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 452 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 490 - Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers