Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surrey Institution |
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... never shone out fuller or brighter , or looked more like itself , than at this period . Our writers and great men had something in them that savoured of the soil from which they grew : they were not French , they were not Dutch , or ...
... never shone out fuller or brighter , or looked more like itself , than at this period . Our writers and great men had something in them that savoured of the soil from which they grew : they were not French , they were not Dutch , or ...
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... never knew any thing till we did ; that the world had grown old in sloth and ignorance , had dreamt out its long minority of five thousand years in a dozing state , and that it first began to wake out of sleep , to rouse itself , and ...
... never knew any thing till we did ; that the world had grown old in sloth and ignorance , had dreamt out its long minority of five thousand years in a dozing state , and that it first began to wake out of sleep , to rouse itself , and ...
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... never yet subsided . Germany first broke the spell of misbegotten fear , and gave the watch- word ; but England joined the shout , and echoed M it back with her island voice , from her GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT . 15.
... never yet subsided . Germany first broke the spell of misbegotten fear , and gave the watch- word ; but England joined the shout , and echoed M it back with her island voice , from her GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT . 15.
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... never seen on earth before , nor since . This shone manifestly both in his words and actions . We see it in his washing the Disciples ' feet the night before his death , that unspeakable instance of humility and love , above all art ...
... never seen on earth before , nor since . This shone manifestly both in his words and actions . We see it in his washing the Disciples ' feet the night before his death , that unspeakable instance of humility and love , above all art ...
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... never thought of con- sidering others , but as they were Greeks or Ro- mans , as they were bound to them by certain positive ties , or , on the other hand , as separated from them by fiercer antipathies . Their virtues were the virtues ...
... never thought of con- sidering others , but as they were Greeks or Ro- mans , as they were bound to them by certain positive ties , or , on the other hand , as separated from them by fiercer antipathies . Their virtues were the virtues ...
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Page 301 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 255 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Page 252 - Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more...
Page 29 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 298 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 187 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 60 - Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...
Page 61 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Page 225 - A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 59 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.