British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of England and America, with Biographical Sketches and an Historical Outline of English Literature. Poetry and ProseGeorge Westermann, 1885 |
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Page xxi
... wish he had never written them . In all the vast range of characters which Shakespeare presents to us in his dramas , it is remarkable how completely he keeps himself in the background ; and this is the principal reason why no two of ...
... wish he had never written them . In all the vast range of characters which Shakespeare presents to us in his dramas , it is remarkable how completely he keeps himself in the background ; and this is the principal reason why no two of ...
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... wish to understand Fal- staff's reply , when Prince Henry and Poins demand a reason for what he had just stated : | in 1622 under the name of the Unfortunate |. - : Fal . What , upon compulsion ? Zounds , an I were at the strappado , or ...
... wish to understand Fal- staff's reply , when Prince Henry and Poins demand a reason for what he had just stated : | in 1622 under the name of the Unfortunate |. - : Fal . What , upon compulsion ? Zounds , an I were at the strappado , or ...
Page xxix
... wish of his life to be able to de- vote a few undisturbed years to the com- position of some great poem , which should have done honour to his country and made his own name immortal ; but this his nar- row means , and the necessity of ...
... wish of his life to be able to de- vote a few undisturbed years to the com- position of some great poem , which should have done honour to his country and made his own name immortal ; but this his nar- row means , and the necessity of ...
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... Wishes , the compiler of the first Rasselas and the Lives of the Poets , is great English dictionary , the writer of likewise an essayist . His principal essays are to be found in the Rambler ( 1750- 1752 ) and in the less popular Idler ...
... Wishes , the compiler of the first Rasselas and the Lives of the Poets , is great English dictionary , the writer of likewise an essayist . His principal essays are to be found in the Rambler ( 1750- 1752 ) and in the less popular Idler ...
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... wish I knew what king to call . ) Madam , your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend : No , madam , ' tis a shocking sight , And he's engaged to - morrow night : My Lady Club would take it ill , If he should fail her at ...
... wish I knew what king to call . ) Madam , your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend : No , madam , ' tis a shocking sight , And he's engaged to - morrow night : My Lady Club would take it ill , If he should fail her at ...
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Page 273 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 600 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 381 - All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflowed.
Page 273 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 277 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, /And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 54 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 54 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
Page 380 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock/beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 411 - Awake, my soul ! not only passive praise Thou owest ! not alone these swelling tears, Mute thanks and secret ecstasy ! Awake, Voice of sweet song ! Awake, my Heart, awake ! Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn.
Page 600 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...