The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xii
... means for the attainment of a fixed purpose . It should seem to be with malice aforethought that he sets himself to bring to perfection the qualities of crabbed turgidity and barbarous bombast with which nature had but too richly ...
... means for the attainment of a fixed purpose . It should seem to be with malice aforethought that he sets himself to bring to perfection the qualities of crabbed turgidity and barbarous bombast with which nature had but too richly ...
Page xix
... means of revenge the thought of enchantments " sovereign to plague his enemies , " as he buckles himself again to the grim business of escape - these and other such illus- trative passages are not more remarkable for the splendour of ...
... means of revenge the thought of enchantments " sovereign to plague his enemies , " as he buckles himself again to the grim business of escape - these and other such illus- trative passages are not more remarkable for the splendour of ...
Page xxi
... means to it aright . The editor of the first and by no means the worst English anthology has gathered from these poems , and especially from Ovid's Banquet of Sense , large handfuls of fine verses , which when thus culled out and bound ...
... means to it aright . The editor of the first and by no means the worst English anthology has gathered from these poems , and especially from Ovid's Banquet of Sense , large handfuls of fine verses , which when thus culled out and bound ...
Page xxvi
... means to be ascribed in this case to a general and genuine humility , since the dedications prefixed to his various poems , and to two among his tragedies published under his own eye , are remarkable for their lofty and dignified self ...
... means to be ascribed in this case to a general and genuine humility , since the dedications prefixed to his various poems , and to two among his tragedies published under his own eye , are remarkable for their lofty and dignified self ...
Page xxxiii
... means the kind of cattle that it would be safe for any driver to goad or load overmuch . The writer may be taken as an exponent of Anglican conservatism if not of Catholic reaction in matters of religious doctrine and discipline ; he ...
... means the kind of cattle that it would be safe for any driver to goad or load overmuch . The writer may be taken as an exponent of Anglican conservatism if not of Catholic reaction in matters of religious doctrine and discipline ; he ...
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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.