The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Volume 1, Issues 1-101827 |
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... Critics , indeed , content themselves with directing their ingenuity towards the discovery of new beauties , which had hitherto escaped their obser- vation . I think it may be acknowledged , without risk- ing the imputation of any wish ...
... Critics , indeed , content themselves with directing their ingenuity towards the discovery of new beauties , which had hitherto escaped their obser- vation . I think it may be acknowledged , without risk- ing the imputation of any wish ...
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... critics ' spite Would but enhance mine own delight ; An hundred friendly voices round Shall bid me spurn one angry sound . Not yet defunct , I roam on earth , Made ready for my second birth ; And , with your leave , my worthy friend , I ...
... critics ' spite Would but enhance mine own delight ; An hundred friendly voices round Shall bid me spurn one angry sound . Not yet defunct , I roam on earth , Made ready for my second birth ; And , with your leave , my worthy friend , I ...
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... critics - we mean , the probability of that scene in which Calantha , in spite of the calamities which are momentarily announced to her , continues the revelry in which the court is engaged , and though her mind is shaken to its centre ...
... critics - we mean , the probability of that scene in which Calantha , in spite of the calamities which are momentarily announced to her , continues the revelry in which the court is engaged , and though her mind is shaken to its centre ...
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... critic will not admire the skill by which the dignity of Warbeck , from first to last , is preserved ; never allowing him to drop a syllable in mistrust of his own cause , and thus completely identify- ing him with the prince whom he ...
... critic will not admire the skill by which the dignity of Warbeck , from first to last , is preserved ; never allowing him to drop a syllable in mistrust of his own cause , and thus completely identify- ing him with the prince whom he ...
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... critic to observe the beautiful beginning . There is no unnecessary " circum- bendibus , " no senseless bombast , no worn - out invoca- tion . We plunge at once into the story ; but yet we are not so hurried along as to be called at ...
... critic to observe the beautiful beginning . There is no unnecessary " circum- bendibus , " no senseless bombast , no worn - out invoca- tion . We plunge at once into the story ; but yet we are not so hurried along as to be called at ...
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Page 64 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Page 189 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 43 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented...
Page 146 - For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 189 - And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again!
Page 126 - t be possible — of blood : Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul ; acknowledge what thou art, A wretch, a worm, a nothing ; weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night ; For seven days...
Page 125 - No, father; in your eyes I see the change Of pity and compassion; from your age, As from a sacred oracle, distils The life of counsel: tell me, holy man, What cure shall give me ease in these extremes ? Friar.
Page 188 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Page 104 - Every quarter of the city was illuminated ; the great temple shone with such peculiar splendour, that the Spaniards could plainly see the people in motion, and the priests busy in hastening the preparations for the death of the prisoners.
Page 157 - tis but a sound ; a name of air ; A minute's storm ; or not so much : to tumble From bed to bed, be massacred alive By some physicians for a month or two, In hope of freedom from a fever's torments, Might stagger manhood ; here, the pain is past 1 [Half a page omitted.] * [Two lines omitted.] Ere sensibly 'tis felt.