The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page ix
... beauty , which should have ensured him a place in the front rank at least of gnomic poets . It is true that his " wisdom entangles itself in over - niceness ; " that his philosophy is apt to lose its way among brakes of digression and ...
... beauty , which should have ensured him a place in the front rank at least of gnomic poets . It is true that his " wisdom entangles itself in over - niceness ; " that his philosophy is apt to lose its way among brakes of digression and ...
Page xix
... of bombast and confusion ; it is thoughtful , earnest , eloquent , with interludes of mere violent and dissonant declamation , and rarer flashes of high and subtle beauty . The licentious grammar POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xix.
... of bombast and confusion ; it is thoughtful , earnest , eloquent , with interludes of mere violent and dissonant declamation , and rarer flashes of high and subtle beauty . The licentious grammar POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS . xix.
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George Chapman Richard Herne Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne. flashes of high and subtle beauty . The licentious grammar and the shapeless structure of sentences that break all bounds of sense or harmony are faults that cannot be ...
George Chapman Richard Herne Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne. flashes of high and subtle beauty . The licentious grammar and the shapeless structure of sentences that break all bounds of sense or harmony are faults that cannot be ...
Page xxi
... beauty embedded in the cumbrous ore of crude pedantic jargon : but those who will may find throughout the two earliest publications of Chapman a profusion of good verses thickly scattered among an overgrowth of bad . The first poem ...
... beauty embedded in the cumbrous ore of crude pedantic jargon : but those who will may find throughout the two earliest publications of Chapman a profusion of good verses thickly scattered among an overgrowth of bad . The first poem ...
Page xxv
... beauty ; the plot and the characters excellently fitted to each other , with just enough intricacy and fullness of incident to sustain without relaxation or confusion the ready interest of readers or spectators . The play and ...
... beauty ; the plot and the characters excellently fitted to each other , with just enough intricacy and fullness of incident to sustain without relaxation or confusion the ready interest of readers or spectators . The play and ...
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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.