The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page x
... the world was inadequate to suppress or to chasten . For all his labours in the field of Greek translation , no poet was ever less of a Greek in style or spirit . He enters the serene temples and X ESSAY ON GEORGE CHAPMAN'S.
... the world was inadequate to suppress or to chasten . For all his labours in the field of Greek translation , no poet was ever less of a Greek in style or spirit . He enters the serene temples and X ESSAY ON GEORGE CHAPMAN'S.
Page xi
... less of thick acrid smoke there is also less real heat and flame perceptible than struggles here through the fume and fog of a Cimmerian style . The dialect of Chapman's poems is undoubtedly portentous in its general barbarism ; and ...
... less of thick acrid smoke there is also less real heat and flame perceptible than struggles here through the fume and fog of a Cimmerian style . The dialect of Chapman's poems is undoubtedly portentous in its general barbarism ; and ...
Page xii
... less remarkable than the bitter and violent expression of his contempt for general opinion . " Such is the wilful poverty of judgments , wandering like passportless men in contempt of the divine discipline of poesy , that a man may well ...
... less remarkable than the bitter and violent expression of his contempt for general opinion . " Such is the wilful poverty of judgments , wandering like passportless men in contempt of the divine discipline of poesy , that a man may well ...
Page xiii
... less careful to refill it before proceeding to a fresh delivery . I sincerely think and hope that no poems with a tithe of their genuine power and merit were ever written on such a plan or after such a fashion as the Shadow of Night or ...
... less careful to refill it before proceeding to a fresh delivery . I sincerely think and hope that no poems with a tithe of their genuine power and merit were ever written on such a plan or after such a fashion as the Shadow of Night or ...
Page xviii
... less to comprehend the process , of this inner tragic action . The poem , in short , is like a picture in which the background runs into the foreground , the figures and the landscape confound each other for want of space and keeping ...
... less to comprehend the process , of this inner tragic action . The poem , in short , is like a picture in which the background runs into the foreground , the figures and the landscape confound each other for want of space and keeping ...
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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.