Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, المجلد 4Smith, Elder & Company, 1884 - 668 من الصفحات |
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... less complete although more complicated , in a series and a company of persons . The former aims at demonstrating the unity of one man's work , subject to influences which make or mar it ; the latter exhibits the unity of a work ...
... less complete although more complicated , in a series and a company of persons . The former aims at demonstrating the unity of one man's work , subject to influences which make or mar it ; the latter exhibits the unity of a work ...
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... less in the parts than in the mass , less in particular achievements than in the spirit which sustains and animates the whole . It is the volume and variety of this dramatic literature , poured forth with almost incoherent volubility by ...
... less in the parts than in the mass , less in particular achievements than in the spirit which sustains and animates the whole . It is the volume and variety of this dramatic literature , poured forth with almost incoherent volubility by ...
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... less than his successors , exist for him ; that without him English dramatic art would be but second rate ; that he is the keystone of the arch , the justifier and interpreter of his time's striving impulses . The forms he employs are ...
... less than his successors , exist for him ; that without him English dramatic art would be but second rate ; that he is the keystone of the arch , the justifier and interpreter of his time's striving impulses . The forms he employs are ...
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... less popular during the golden age of the Drama , but destined to assert itself after the Civil Wars . Jonson was a learned , and aimed at being a correct , poet . He formed a conception of poetry as the proper instrument of moral ...
... less popular during the golden age of the Drama , but destined to assert itself after the Civil Wars . Jonson was a learned , and aimed at being a correct , poet . He formed a conception of poetry as the proper instrument of moral ...
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... less isolated from their few worthy successors of the Georgian age . Far more significant than the vamped - up dramas of the eighteenth century are the novels which now take their rise , and which preserve the old dramatic genius of the ...
... less isolated from their few worthy successors of the Georgian age . Far more significant than the vamped - up dramas of the eighteenth century are the novels which now take their rise , and which preserve the old dramatic genius of the ...
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الصفحة 57 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
الصفحة 226 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
الصفحة 593 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
الصفحة 515 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
الصفحة 49 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
الصفحة 319 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
الصفحة 615 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?— Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
الصفحة 388 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
الصفحة 434 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
الصفحة 49 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...