Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 עמודים |
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עמוד 108
... rhyme , and produced at the same theatre . This attempt was more suc- cessful ; and , in 1664 , there was produced , as the joint com- position of Dryden and Sir Robert Howard , an attempt in the style of the regular heroic or rhymed ...
... rhyme , and produced at the same theatre . This attempt was more suc- cessful ; and , in 1664 , there was produced , as the joint com- position of Dryden and Sir Robert Howard , an attempt in the style of the regular heroic or rhymed ...
עמוד 118
... rhyme ; five , tragedies in blank verse ; and one , the rhymed tragedy above referred to . It will be observed that this was at the rate of only one play a - year ; whereas , by his engagement , he was to furnish three . The fact was ...
... rhyme ; five , tragedies in blank verse ; and one , the rhymed tragedy above referred to . It will be observed that this was at the rate of only one play a - year ; whereas , by his engagement , he was to furnish three . The fact was ...
עמוד 120
... rhymes Were stolen , unequal - nay , dull , many times . What foolish patron is there found of his , So blindly partial to deny me this ? But that his plays , embroidered up and down With wit and learning , justly pleased the town , In ...
... rhymes Were stolen , unequal - nay , dull , many times . What foolish patron is there found of his , So blindly partial to deny me this ? But that his plays , embroidered up and down With wit and learning , justly pleased the town , In ...
עמוד 136
... - bably Milton meant something of the kind , when he said that Dryden was a rhymer , but no poet . It was in decla- matory and didactic rhyme , with all that could consist with it , that Dryden excelled . It was in the 136 DRYDEN , AND THE.
... - bably Milton meant something of the kind , when he said that Dryden was a rhymer , but no poet . It was in decla- matory and didactic rhyme , with all that could consist with it , that Dryden excelled . It was in the 136 DRYDEN , AND THE.
עמוד 230
... rhyme ) grew out of , and has come down to us amid the Museum MSS . , to perpetuate and represent ; we can honestly arrive but at one conclusion - that it is the spiteful epistle of some improper female friend , avenging herself with ...
... rhyme ) grew out of , and has come down to us amid the Museum MSS . , to perpetuate and represent ; we can honestly arrive but at one conclusion - that it is the spiteful epistle of some improper female friend , avenging herself with ...
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עמוד 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
עמוד 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
עמוד 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
עמוד 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
עמוד 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
עמוד 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
עמוד 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
עמוד 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...