The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xvii
... leave his work such a poem as the few must like , rather than such as the many might . Against this decision no one has a right to appeal ; and there is doubtless much in the work as it stands that all imaginative thinkers and capable ...
... leave his work such a poem as the few must like , rather than such as the many might . Against this decision no one has a right to appeal ; and there is doubtless much in the work as it stands that all imaginative thinkers and capable ...
Page xxiv
... leave it in a reasonably legible form . It appears that in the same year which gave to the press this loose and slipshod effort at a comedy , the most perfect of Chapman's plays , though not published till six years later , was ...
... leave it in a reasonably legible form . It appears that in the same year which gave to the press this loose and slipshod effort at a comedy , the most perfect of Chapman's plays , though not published till six years later , was ...
Page xxxi
... leave place for a last superfluous exhibition of such burlesque eloquence as had already been admitted to encumber the close of another comedy , more perfect than this in construction , but certainly not more interesting in conception ...
... leave place for a last superfluous exhibition of such burlesque eloquence as had already been admitted to encumber the close of another comedy , more perfect than this in construction , but certainly not more interesting in conception ...
Page xxxiv
... leave undetected at the door of such a foster - father , or to pass off for a time on the thickest - witted of his admirers as a sinful slip of the great man's grafting in his idler hours of human infirmity . But if there was in effect ...
... leave undetected at the door of such a foster - father , or to pass off for a time on the thickest - witted of his admirers as a sinful slip of the great man's grafting in his idler hours of human infirmity . But if there was in effect ...
Page xli
... leave of official examiners and under favour of a chaste Chamberlain to gloat upon the filthiest farces that could be raked from the sweepings of a stage whose national masterpieces were excluded from our own . But it is only proper ...
... leave of official examiners and under favour of a chaste Chamberlain to gloat upon the filthiest farces that could be raked from the sweepings of a stage whose national masterpieces were excluded from our own . But it is only proper ...
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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.