The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe'sMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 327 עמודים |
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עמוד 67
... England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations . By Frenchmen Shakespeare is accepted as at least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans , by ...
... England should have given birth to such a man is of itself a moiety of our acquittance among the nations . By Frenchmen Shakespeare is accepted as at least equal to their own first ; Italians waver between him and Dante ; Germans , by ...
עמוד 105
... England ; and it necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper . Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who knew him best convey the idea of a character notably different from ...
... England ; and it necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper . Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who knew him best convey the idea of a character notably different from ...
עמוד 125
... England more full of fair promise than Milton , when , at the age of twenty - three , he quitted Cambridge to reside at his father's house , amid the quiet beauties of a rural neighbourhood some twenty miles distant from London . Fair ...
... England more full of fair promise than Milton , when , at the age of twenty - three , he quitted Cambridge to reside at his father's house , amid the quiet beauties of a rural neighbourhood some twenty miles distant from London . Fair ...
עמוד 131
... England , at least the greatest writer , and one whose . egomet dixi was entitled to as much force in the intellectual commonwealth as the decree of a civil magistrate is invested with in the order of civil life . All that he said or ...
... England , at least the greatest writer , and one whose . egomet dixi was entitled to as much force in the intellectual commonwealth as the decree of a civil magistrate is invested with in the order of civil life . All that he said or ...
עמוד 135
... England , at the time when he formed . that resolution , was a place where he could hope to keep it . For a man so situated , the alternative , then as now , was the practice or profession of literature . To this , therefore , as soon ...
... England , at the time when he formed . that resolution , was a place where he could hope to keep it . For a man so situated , the alternative , then as now , was the practice or profession of literature . To this , therefore , as soon ...
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עמוד 86 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
עמוד 151 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
עמוד 48 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
עמוד 232 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 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 13 - 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 28 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
עמוד 113 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
עמוד 88 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
עמוד 27 - ... are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic, and the originality of their ideas and the quaintness of their language give them a most captivating piquancy. The illustrations are extremely interesting, and for the curious in such matters have a special and particular value.