Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 3. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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95. oldal
... writer at Madras , he had twice attempted to destroy himself . Business and prosperity had produced a salutary effect on his spirits . In India , while he was occupied by great affairs , in England , while wealth and rank had still the ...
... writer at Madras , he had twice attempted to destroy himself . Business and prosperity had produced a salutary effect on his spirits . In India , while he was occupied by great affairs , in England , while wealth and rank had still the ...
132. oldal
... write a Latin theme ; and he is told that , if he remains in the com- munion of the Church , he must do so as a hearer , and that , if he is resolved to be a teacher , he must begin by being a schismatic . His choice is soon made . He ...
... write a Latin theme ; and he is told that , if he remains in the com- munion of the Church , he must do so as a hearer , and that , if he is resolved to be a teacher , he must begin by being a schismatic . His choice is soon made . He ...
152. oldal
... writing in Fletcher and Massinger , and more than might be wished even in Ben Jonson and Shakspeare , who are comparatively pure . But it is impossible to trace in their plays any systematic attempt to associate vice with those things ...
... writing in Fletcher and Massinger , and more than might be wished even in Ben Jonson and Shakspeare , who are comparatively pure . But it is impossible to trace in their plays any systematic attempt to associate vice with those things ...
154. oldal
... writing . The dramatists of the latter part of the seventeenth century are not , ac- cording to him , to be tried by the standard of morality which exists , and ought to exist , in real life . Their world is a conventional world . Their ...
... writing . The dramatists of the latter part of the seventeenth century are not , ac- cording to him , to be tried by the standard of morality which exists , and ought to exist , in real life . Their world is a conventional world . Their ...
155. oldal
... writer to create a conventional world in which things forbidden by the Decalogue and the Statute Book shall be lawful , and yet that the exhi- bition may be harmless , or even edifying . For ex- ample , we suppose that the most austere ...
... writer to create a conventional world in which things forbidden by the Decalogue and the Statute Book shall be lawful , and yet that the exhi- bition may be harmless , or even edifying . For ex- ample , we suppose that the most austere ...
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