Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, 3. cilt1841 |
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Sayfa 13
... truth of the manners in a wide circle of society , and the uninterrupted gaiety pervading the whole airy composition . So recently as in 1818 an ancient printed drama , styled " Ralph Roister Doister , " was discovered * ; a legitimate ...
... truth of the manners in a wide circle of society , and the uninterrupted gaiety pervading the whole airy composition . So recently as in 1818 an ancient printed drama , styled " Ralph Roister Doister , " was discovered * ; a legitimate ...
Sayfa 15
... truth of nature , and by the clear conception of his domestic personages . There is a group of domestics - the ancient housekeeper spin- ning on her distaff amidst her maidens , some sowing , some knitting , all in free chat ; these ...
... truth of nature , and by the clear conception of his domestic personages . There is a group of domestics - the ancient housekeeper spin- ning on her distaff amidst her maidens , some sowing , some knitting , all in free chat ; these ...
Sayfa 30
... truth is , that this whole poetical race , which suddenly broke out together , a sort of wild insurrection of genius , early found that they were nothing more than the hirelings of some crafty manager , at whose beck and mercy they ...
... truth is , that this whole poetical race , which suddenly broke out together , a sort of wild insurrection of genius , early found that they were nothing more than the hirelings of some crafty manager , at whose beck and mercy they ...
Sayfa 39
... truth described himself as " the carrier's horse which cannot blench the beaten way in which I was trained . " In banishing the productions of the national genius from that national library which his hand had proudly erected , little ...
... truth described himself as " the carrier's horse which cannot blench the beaten way in which I was trained . " In banishing the productions of the national genius from that national library which his hand had proudly erected , little ...
Sayfa 42
... truth ; the diffident , resolu- tion , & c . " For my part , I think of these volumes as highly as Oldys himself . But what has occasioned the little success of these collections of single passages and detached beauties , like ...
... truth ; the diffident , resolu- tion , & c . " For my part , I think of these volumes as highly as Oldys himself . But what has occasioned the little success of these collections of single passages and detached beauties , like ...
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Sayfa 155 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Sayfa 8 - ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.
Sayfa 61 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Sayfa 68 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Sayfa 133 - Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will.
Sayfa 77 - I do not know that Englishman alive, With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night; I thank my God for my humility.
Sayfa 415 - The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority. shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of innovations may propagate his projects, there can be no settlement ; if every...
Sayfa 33 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses rewritten. The earnestness and passion...
Sayfa 55 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Sayfa 70 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.