The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, 25-26. kötetT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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1. oldal
... kind of poetry , is not my present purpose ; that it has long subsisted in the east , the Sacred Writings sufficiently inform us ; and we may conjecture with great probability , that it was sometimes the devotion , and sometimes the XXV .
... kind of poetry , is not my present purpose ; that it has long subsisted in the east , the Sacred Writings sufficiently inform us ; and we may conjecture with great probability , that it was sometimes the devotion , and sometimes the XXV .
2. oldal
... kind . Theocritus united elegance with simplicity ; and taught his shepherds to sing with so much ease and harmony , that his countrymen , despairing to excel , forbore to imitate him ; and the Greeks , how- ever vain or ambitious ...
... kind . Theocritus united elegance with simplicity ; and taught his shepherds to sing with so much ease and harmony , that his countrymen , despairing to excel , forbore to imitate him ; and the Greeks , how- ever vain or ambitious ...
3. oldal
... kind : it is filled with images at once splendid and pleas- ing , and is elevated with grandeur of language wor- thy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion , between the performance and ...
... kind : it is filled with images at once splendid and pleas- ing , and is elevated with grandeur of language wor- thy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion , between the performance and ...
8. oldal
... kind , than are , perhaps , to be discovered in any other author . I shall , there- fore , from time to time , examine his merit as a poet , without blind admiration , or wanton invective . As Shakspeare is sometimes blamable for the ...
... kind , than are , perhaps , to be discovered in any other author . I shall , there- fore , from time to time , examine his merit as a poet , without blind admiration , or wanton invective . As Shakspeare is sometimes blamable for the ...
8. oldal
... kind with that which is so justly admired in the Adam of Milton , whose manners and sentiments are all Paradisaical . How delightfully and how suitably to his character , are the habitations and pastimes of this invisible be- ing ...
... kind with that which is so justly admired in the Adam of Milton , whose manners and sentiments are all Paradisaical . How delightfully and how suitably to his character , are the habitations and pastimes of this invisible be- ing ...
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26. oldal - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
8. oldal - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
138. oldal - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
139. oldal - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
179. oldal - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward ; and, to deal plainly, I fear, I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks, I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful : for I am mainly ignorant What place this is : and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments ; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night : Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
179. oldal - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!
53. oldal - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
180. oldal - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
8. oldal - Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art ; With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where.
179. oldal - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.