The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page ix
... illustration which may start across its path from some obscure corner at the unluckiest and unlikeliest time ; that the rough and barren byways of incongruous allusion , of unseasonable reflection or preposterous and grotesque symbolism ...
... illustration which may start across its path from some obscure corner at the unluckiest and unlikeliest time ; that the rough and barren byways of incongruous allusion , of unseasonable reflection or preposterous and grotesque symbolism ...
Page xi
... illustration of the public virtues which are fostered and the public vices which are repressed under the strong sharp tutelage of such a government . At the many - headed beast of democracy he would have discharged the keenest arrows of ...
... illustration of the public virtues which are fostered and the public vices which are repressed under the strong sharp tutelage of such a government . At the many - headed beast of democracy he would have discharged the keenest arrows of ...
Page xvi
... illustration and illumination , and bring to bear upon one point at once all the rays of his thought in one focus . Apart from his gift of moral imagination , Mr. Browning has in the supreme degree the qualities of a great debater or an ...
... illustration and illumination , and bring to bear upon one point at once all the rays of his thought in one focus . Apart from his gift of moral imagination , Mr. Browning has in the supreme degree the qualities of a great debater or an ...
Page xvii
... illustration and the byplay of alien actions and passions which now serve only to perplex the scheme they ought to explain . If it was the author's purpose to give to his philosophic poem a background of historic action , to relieve ...
... illustration and the byplay of alien actions and passions which now serve only to perplex the scheme they ought to explain . If it was the author's purpose to give to his philosophic poem a background of historic action , to relieve ...
Page xix
... illustration every symbol and every detail on which its light is flashed in passing . Thus in Fifine the illustration derived from a visionary retrospect of Venice , and in Sordello the superb and wonderful comparison of the mental ...
... illustration every symbol and every detail on which its light is flashed in passing . Thus in Fifine the illustration derived from a visionary retrospect of Venice , and in Sordello the superb and wonderful comparison of the mental ...
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Page 57 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by Fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice. What we behold is censured by our eyes.