Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaFrederick Warne andco., 1887 - 403 من الصفحات |
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... audience who heard the theses of the courts of love attacked and supported in logical form , and with metaphysical subtlety . Should the manners of the times appear inconsistent in these re- spects which we have noticed , we must ...
... audience who heard the theses of the courts of love attacked and supported in logical form , and with metaphysical subtlety . Should the manners of the times appear inconsistent in these re- spects which we have noticed , we must ...
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... audience by the associations which the song awakens . These poems , of which very few can now be supposed to exist , are not without flashes of genius , but brief , rude , and often obscure , from real antiquity or affected sublimity of ...
... audience by the associations which the song awakens . These poems , of which very few can now be supposed to exist , are not without flashes of genius , but brief , rude , and often obscure , from real antiquity or affected sublimity of ...
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... audience , augments the meagre chronicle with his own apocryphal inventions . Skirmishes are magnified into great battles ; the champion of a remote age is exaggerated into a sort of demi - god ; and the enemies whom he encountered and ...
... audience , augments the meagre chronicle with his own apocryphal inventions . Skirmishes are magnified into great battles ; the champion of a remote age is exaggerated into a sort of demi - god ; and the enemies whom he encountered and ...
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... audience . Our ancestors , as they were circumscribed in knowledge , were also more limited in con- versation than their enlightened descendants ; and it seems probable , that , in their public festivals , there was great advantage ...
... audience . Our ancestors , as they were circumscribed in knowledge , were also more limited in con- versation than their enlightened descendants ; and it seems probable , that , in their public festivals , there was great advantage ...
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... audience , with which they were obliged to comply , under the true , but melancholy condition , that " They who live to please must please to live . " But this very necessity , rendered more degrading by their increasing numbers and ...
... audience , with which they were obliged to comply , under the true , but melancholy condition , that " They who live to please must please to live . " But this very necessity , rendered more degrading by their increasing numbers and ...
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الصفحة 272 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
الصفحة 271 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
الصفحة 301 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
الصفحة 202 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
الصفحة 272 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
الصفحة 272 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of. calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
الصفحة 201 - Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
الصفحة 205 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
الصفحة 167 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
الصفحة 182 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.