The British Essayists: AdventurerJ. Haddon, 1819 - English essays |
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... kind of poetry , is not my present purpose ; that it has long subsisted in the east , the Sacred Writings sufficiently inform us ; and we may conjecture , with great probability , that it was sometimes the devotion , and sometimes the ...
... kind of poetry , is not my present purpose ; that it has long subsisted in the east , the Sacred Writings sufficiently inform us ; and we may conjecture , with great probability , that it was sometimes the devotion , and sometimes the ...
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... kind : it is filled with images at once splendid and pleas- ing , and is elevated with grandeur of language wor- thy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion , between the performance and ...
... kind : it is filled with images at once splendid and pleas- ing , and is elevated with grandeur of language wor- thy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion , between the performance and ...
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... kind , and , therefore , easily in- vented ; and that there are few sentiments of ra- tional praise or natural lamentation . In the Silenus he again arises to the dignity of philosophic sentiment and heroic poetry . The ad- dress to ...
... kind , and , therefore , easily in- vented ; and that there are few sentiments of ra- tional praise or natural lamentation . In the Silenus he again arises to the dignity of philosophic sentiment and heroic poetry . The ad- dress to ...
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... kind , than are , perhaps , to be discovered in any other author . I shall , therefore , from time to time , examine his merit as a poet , without blind admira- tion , or wanton invective . As Shakspeare is sometimes blameable for the ...
... kind , than are , perhaps , to be discovered in any other author . I shall , therefore , from time to time , examine his merit as a poet , without blind admira- tion , or wanton invective . As Shakspeare is sometimes blameable for the ...
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... a beauty of the same kind with that which is so justly admired in the Adam of Milton , whose manners and sentiments are all Paradisaical . How delightfully and how suitably to his character , are N ° 93 . 11 ADVENTURER .
... a beauty of the same kind with that which is so justly admired in the Adam of Milton , whose manners and sentiments are all Paradisaical . How delightfully and how suitably to his character , are N ° 93 . 11 ADVENTURER .
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Page 34 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 194 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 135 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 149 - Spit, fire ! spout, rain. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription : then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man...
Page 192 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 60 - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 195 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Page 135 - Stain my man's cheeks! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall, — I will do such things, — What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep; No, I'll not weep: — I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. — O fool, I shall go mad!
Page 194 - Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 134 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...