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... keep for him always beside their admiration a real reverence because of the magnifi- cent example of sustained will power which he gave for sixty years and which made him in the sense in which Carlyle uses the expression , literary hero ...
... keep for him always beside their admiration a real reverence because of the magnifi- cent example of sustained will power which he gave for sixty years and which made him in the sense in which Carlyle uses the expression , literary hero ...
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... keep nudging her in the Far East as it may become to bave our virile young Colonies taking a band in the affairs of empire . Our There remains another factor , and a rather uncertain one , to be reckoned with , the Chinese Government ...
... keep nudging her in the Far East as it may become to bave our virile young Colonies taking a band in the affairs of empire . Our There remains another factor , and a rather uncertain one , to be reckoned with , the Chinese Government ...
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... keep better hours . I found some dozen languid members about the table . They were mostly in evening dress , and they ate their kip- pers , and drank a modest quantity of whisky and water , to a subdued hum of intermittent conversation ...
... keep better hours . I found some dozen languid members about the table . They were mostly in evening dress , and they ate their kip- pers , and drank a modest quantity of whisky and water , to a subdued hum of intermittent conversation ...
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... keep Taroika in a state of partial sol- vency . " You think much and talk noddings , " said Rhyner at length , as the palms about the landing grew blacker ahead . " It is in der night , I think , too , how I come here ten year ago in ...
... keep Taroika in a state of partial sol- vency . " You think much and talk noddings , " said Rhyner at length , as the palms about the landing grew blacker ahead . " It is in der night , I think , too , how I come here ten year ago in ...
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... keep it in view , appears only intermit- tently and then with little force . But as regards the rest of the play , I de- fend every line of it from any stand- point . The first scene in Ithaca plays immeasurably better than it reads ...
... keep it in view , appears only intermit- tently and then with little force . But as regards the rest of the play , I de- fend every line of it from any stand- point . The first scene in Ithaca plays immeasurably better than it reads ...
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Page 234 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 275 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 235 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 160 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few-. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Page 685 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 238 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 40 - They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half...
Page 244 - I must own a particular obligation to him, for the most considerable part of the passages relating to this life, which I have here transmitted to the publick ; his veneration for the memory of Shakspeare having engaged him to make a journey into Warwickshire, on purpose to gather up what remains he could, of a name for which he had so great a veneration.* To the foregoing Accounts of SHAKSPEARE'S LIFE, / have only one passage to add..
Page 232 - A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell ; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Page 253 - ... pleasure according to their sweetness and melody ; nor do harsh sounds always displease. We are more apt to be captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field-cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.