Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 1Sheldon and Company, 1862 |
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admiration Æneid ALCIBIADES ancient appear Aristophanes army Athenian Athens beautiful Cæsar CALLICLES CALLIDEMUS Catiline cause century character CHARICLEA Charles Church circumstances critics Cromwell dæmons Dante death Demosthenes despotism Divine Comedy doubt Dryden effect eminent enemies England English Euripides evil excellence favour feelings fiction genius Greece Greek Hallam Herodotus HIPPOMACHUS historian honour human imagination imitation intellectual interest Italian Italy King language less liberty literature Long Parliament look Lord Machiavelli manner means ment merit Milton mind Mitford moral nations nature never noble opinion Parliament party passions peculiar person Petition of Right Petrarch poem poet poetry political Prince principles produced reason remarkable rendered respect Revolution Rome scarcely seems Shakspeare society sophisms speech SPEUSIPPUS spirit statesmen Strafford strong style talents taste things thought Thucydides tion truth tyrant Whigs whole writers Xenophon
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الصفحة 395 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
الصفحة 237 - Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach...
الصفحة 308 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything, for I know it is but a play; and, if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet, if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
الصفحة 192 - Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements, would he have been able to combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man, a real, living, individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness.
الصفحة 244 - ... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow...
الصفحة 308 - ... it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country ; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other. — Anybody may see he is an actor.
الصفحة 235 - ... ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast ; for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...
الصفحة 271 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
الصفحة 180 - Artaxerxes' throne. To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates — see there his tenement — Whom, well inspired, the Oracle pronounced Wisest of men ; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe.
الصفحة 245 - We are not much in the habit of idolising either the living or the dead. And we think -that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated intellect, than that propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.