The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page xi
... thought , of passionate energy , of tumid and fitful eloquence , the most indigestible food ever 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 ...
... thought , of passionate energy , of tumid and fitful eloquence , the most indigestible food ever 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 ...
Page xiii
... thought may seem at least to converge . We see that the author has thought hard and felt deeply ; we apprehend that he is charged as it were to the muzzle with some ardent matter of spiritual interest , of which he would fain deliver ...
... thought may seem at least to converge . We see that the author has thought hard and felt deeply ; we apprehend that he is charged as it were to the muzzle with some ardent matter of spiritual interest , of which he would fain deliver ...
Page xiv
... thought woven from the inexhaustible stores of his perception and kindled from the inexhaustible fire of his imagination . He never thinks but at full speed ; and the rate of his thought is to that of another man's as the speed of a ...
... thought woven from the inexhaustible stores of his perception and kindled from the inexhaustible fire of his imagination . He never thinks but at full speed ; and the rate of his thought is to that of another man's as the speed of a ...
Page xv
... thought in harmony with that of a foggy thinker than with that of one whose thought is electric in its motion . To the latter we have but to come with an open and pliant spirit , untired and undisturbed by the work or the idleness of ...
... thought in harmony with that of a foggy thinker than with that of one whose thought is electric in its motion . To the latter we have but to come with an open and pliant spirit , untired and undisturbed by the work or the idleness of ...
Page xvi
... thought in one focus . Apart from his gift of moral imagination , Mr. Browning has in the supreme degree the qualities of a great debater or an eminent leading counsel ; his finest reasoning has in its expression and develop- ment ...
... thought in one focus . Apart from his gift of moral imagination , Mr. Browning has in the supreme degree the qualities of a great debater or an eminent leading counsel ; his finest reasoning has in its expression and develop- ment ...
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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.