The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xi
... served up to the guests of a man of genius by the master of the feast . Under no circumstances , probably , would Chapman have been always a pure and harmonious writer , capable of casting into fit and radiant form the dark hard masses ...
... served up to the guests of a man of genius by the master of the feast . Under no circumstances , probably , would Chapman have been always a pure and harmonious writer , capable of casting into fit and radiant form the dark hard masses ...
Page xvii
... serve only to perplex the scheme they ought to explain . If it was the author's purpose to give to his philosophic poem a background of historic action , to relieve against the broad mass and movement of outer life the solitary process ...
... serve only to perplex the scheme they ought to explain . If it was the author's purpose to give to his philosophic poem a background of historic action , to relieve against the broad mass and movement of outer life the solitary process ...
Page xxi
... served up at his ' banquet ' in such clumsy vessels of the coarsest ware by the awkward and unwashed hands of an amorous pedant , soiling with the ink of the schools the lifted hem of the garment of love ; he has found instead a fit ...
... served up at his ' banquet ' in such clumsy vessels of the coarsest ware by the awkward and unwashed hands of an amorous pedant , soiling with the ink of the schools the lifted hem of the garment of love ; he has found instead a fit ...
Page xxiii
... served personally as a volunteer in the English ranks ; but it is reasonable to conceive that either in person or by proxy he may have had special opportunities of studying the incidents of war in the Netherlands , which he would ...
... served personally as a volunteer in the English ranks ; but it is reasonable to conceive that either in person or by proxy he may have had special opportunities of studying the incidents of war in the Netherlands , which he would ...
Page xxxvii
... serves for environment or for background to its haughty and dilated proportions , there is more proof of greatness than Chapman had yet given . His comic or gnomic poetry may be better or at least less faulty in its kind , but in that ...
... serves for environment or for background to its haughty and dilated proportions , there is more proof of greatness than Chapman had yet given . His comic or gnomic poetry may be better or at least less faulty in its kind , but in that ...
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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.