The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xiii
... body . Worse than all this is the want of any perceptible centre towards which these tangled and ravelled lines of thought may seem at least to converge . We see that the author has thought hard and felt deeply ; we apprehend that he is ...
... body . Worse than all this is the want of any perceptible centre towards which these tangled and ravelled lines of thought may seem at least to converge . We see that the author has thought hard and felt deeply ; we apprehend that he is ...
Page xviii
... body like the spirit of the poem , its form not less than its thought , should halt between two or three diverse ways , and that the style should too often come to the ground between two stools or more ; being as it is neither a ...
... body like the spirit of the poem , its form not less than its thought , should halt between two or three diverse ways , and that the style should too often come to the ground between two stools or more ; being as it is neither a ...
Page xxxvi
... body , can only be paralleled in Chapman's Bussy d'Ambois or the Death's Fest - book of Beddoes , in each of which a leading part is filled throughout the later scenes by a ghost who takes his full share of the action and the dialogue ...
... body , can only be paralleled in Chapman's Bussy d'Ambois or the Death's Fest - book of Beddoes , in each of which a leading part is filled throughout the later scenes by a ghost who takes his full share of the action and the dialogue ...
Page lx
... body as in soul than I can discern in the parting of Romeo and Juliet . And if it be always a pleasure to read a page of Marlowe , to read it after a page of Chapman is to the capable student of high verse'a pleasure worthy Xerxes the ...
... body as in soul than I can discern in the parting of Romeo and Juliet . And if it be always a pleasure to read a page of Marlowe , to read it after a page of Chapman is to the capable student of high verse'a pleasure worthy Xerxes the ...
Page lxiii
... body , and hold equally of the spirit and the flesh . Here again we find that Jonson and Chapman stand far apart from their fellow men of genius . The most ambitious and the most laborious poets of their day , conscious of high aims and ...
... body , and hold equally of the spirit and the flesh . Here again we find that Jonson and Chapman stand far apart from their fellow men of genius . The most ambitious and the most laborious poets of their day , conscious of high aims 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.